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Monday, November 12, 2007
Borderline crazy: Killings up along the frontier in Mexico
Violence along the border is spiking again, with police chiefs and politicians among the targets.
The bloodshed is especially troubling in the border state of Coahuila, which until this year had been an oasis of calm along a roiling frontera.
A month ago, Austin Police suspended visits to their counterparts in the Coahuila capital, Saltillo, after two high ranking local cops were kidnapped and executed.
Over the weekend, the chief of the federal police in Coahuila, Luis Hernandez Marquez, was sprayed with cop-killer bullets as he drove his car through Saltillo. The top cop is in grave condition at a local hospital.
Border violence also ratcheted up ahead of Sunday’s state elections in Tamaulipas, which borders Brownsville and Laredo.
The elections, which were virtually swept by the PRI, featured conservative PAN candidates and PRIistas alike complaining of threats and attacks.
A PAN city council candidate was kidnapped just hours before the election, sparking a protest at the international bridge in that border town.
Election day on Sunday saw numerous rumors of gun battles and constant overhead flights of military helicopters meant to keep the calm, according Mexican media reports. Despite the rumors, there were no reports of major election-day violence.