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Mexico border Televisa station suffers grenade attack
Associated Press ^ | Feb 7, 2015 12:37 AM EST

Posted on 02/07/2015 12:27:48 PM PST by Olog-hai

A Tamaulipas state official says a Televisa station in the border city of Matamoros suffered a grenade attack that injured two guards, one seriously. […]

The attack came after a week of violence in the city across from Brownsville, Texas. Enrique Juarez Torres, editor of El Manana in Matamoros, was kidnapped and released on Wednesday, a warning he said from the Gulf Cartel for reporting on gunfights that killed nine people. Fifteen people reportedly have died since last weekend in cartel violence. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: brownsville; grenades; matamoros; mexico; televisa

1 posted on 02/07/2015 12:27:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Brownsville TX is 94% hispanic, yet appears to be a very safe city. Murder rate in 2012 was 1.7/100K. That's 3 murders in a population of 180,000.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Brownsville-Texas.html

2 posted on 02/07/2015 12:43:13 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Olog-hai
Undocumented democrats?
3 posted on 02/07/2015 1:04:59 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's First "Third World" President)
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To: Olog-hai

Did Brian Williams just start working there?


4 posted on 02/07/2015 1:39:26 PM PST by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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To: Olog-hai

Probably those Walmart baseball grenades Brian & Co. were telling us could be bought at the Wallyworld sporting goods counter, along with death-dealing assault rifles—before `Fast & Furious’ blew up in their Masters’ faces.


5 posted on 02/07/2015 2:02:37 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai
See what happens when the television station loses the Univision and the locals don't get their usual T&A? A grenade attack? Oh, dear.
6 posted on 02/08/2015 12:53:43 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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