Thread: Bomb damages US consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

Bomb damages US consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Associated Press
Posted: 04/10/2010 03:53:17 PM MDT


MEXICO CITY (AP) - An attacker threw an explosive device over the wall around the U.S. consulate in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, breaking windows and startling employees inside but causing no injuries, the U.S. Embassy said Saturday.

The attack, which took place about 11:30 p.m. Friday, is under investigation, embassy spokesman Claude Young said.

Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande River from Laredo, Texas, and other cities have seen increased violence in recent weeks as powerful Mexican drug cartels battle over control of lucrative trafficking along the border.

U.S. State Department employees in the area had not been victimized until last month. That's when gunmen separately chased down and killed an American woman who worked at the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez along with her husband in their SUV and another man married to a Mexican consulate worker in a similar vehicle. All three had been at the same party.

Young said the consulate in Nuevo Laredo and the consular agency in the border town of Piedras Negras would be closed Monday pending a review of security measures.

Mexican federal prosecutors in the capital said they were reviewing evidence from the scene, including video feeds from security cameras at the consulate.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_14859312

Sounds like we should start shutting down the US consulates, getting Americans out of the country until the Mexican government can quiet this all down (with our money of course.)

So much for the Mexican government's job of protecting the US Embassy. It's time we just shut them down.

It really is like having the "middle east" down South!

Lets import more like this!

The Mexican government will not control the drug lords, there's too much money in it for them and too much corruption. The country thrives on drug money.

Dixie