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    Lawyer slain, journalist injured in northern Mexico

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    Lawyer slain, journalist injured, by gun-toting assailants in northern Mexico

    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    2:55 p.m. April 5, 2005

    NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – A lawyer was shot in the head and killed while a journalist survived after being shot eight times in two separate incidents in this violent northern border city on the Texas border, police said Tuesday.

    Fernando Partida Castaneda, a lawyer who allegedly had represented drug traffickers, was shot Monday night by two armed assailants who surrounded his car and fired six times, police for the state of Tamaulipas, where Nuevo Laredo is located, said in a news release issued Tuesday. The assailants escaped after the shooting, which took place just a little more than 300 yards (meters) from a police station.

    Partida, whose age was not released, was hit three times in the head and three times in the chest and shoulders. He died instantly, police said.

    Guadalupe Garcia Escamilla, 39, a radio reporter in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, was shot eight times by a lone assailant Tuesday morning as she arrived at work, the state police said.

    "Nothing is going to happen to me! Nothing is going to happen to me!" she cried as paramedics attended her. She was in serious condition at a hospital with four gunshots to her chest and abdomen and four to her legs and arms.

    The assailant fired 14 times at Garcia, police said. State Police Commander Rafael Hinojosa refused to comment on the case.

    Police have been battling an ongoing wave of violence in Nuevo Laredo, much of it believed to be related to drug trafficking. At least 20 people have been killed in ambush-style shootings in the city so far this year.

    Last Saturday, attorney Anselmo Guarneros was shot in his office, located less than a mile (kilometer) away from a police station.

    Guarneros was treated at a hospital for a small wound to his abdomen and released. Police did not say who was responsible or what the motive was behind the attack.



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    I'm surprised this made the news. Most crimes like this are just suppressed or passed off as "disputes."
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    What's the moral of this story folks? The moral is don't visit the filthhole known as Mexico. Enter Mexico at your own risk.
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    There have been warnings issued about that here in my city since last December when the drug lords started having shoot outs. But those shoot outs and murders happen on this side of the border, too. It is just that they are disguised as other things if they are noted at all.

    Seems to me that when people all of a sudden turn up dead in arroyos and the desert for no apparent reason, there is a little more to it than random violence. Forgive me for thinking that, but I've seen and heard too much to call every act of violence that occurs in this place random.

    Same way with houses that seem to blow up. Many of the explosions are blamed on gas furnaces and propane tanks. I think it has something more to do with making methamphetomines. But then, I guess I've grown cynical and suspicious by nature over the course of time. That is what happens when you live in a world full of gangsters and thugs and law enforcement discouraged from enforcing the law.
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    Forgive me for thinking that, but I've seen and heard too much to call every act of violence that occurs in this place random.
    If a white person goes on a killing spree taken out a few minorities then it's a hate crime, but if a minority goes on a killing spree taken out a few whites then it's a random act of violence.
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    It doesn't have anything to do with whether the people involved are white, pink or purple. More than 3/4 of the people in this city are Hispanic of some description so it only stands to reason that many of the victims are hispanic. Many are legal American citizens. Some have dual citizenship in the US and Mexico (and to me that is wrong, wrong, wrong and shouldn't be allowed!)

    The problem has to do with Mexican gang members who have drug cartel connections coming across the border to wreak havoc and then going back across the border to evade arrest.

    They don't come in hunting for Anglos. They come in hopped up, drunk and angry about drug deals gone bad and start shooting the people they think are responsible for the monetary losses. Often, innocent people get caught in the crossfire along with the people they are aiming at.

    Say a guy is a small time drug dealer out with his girlfriend, or vise versa. Some thug follows and executes both parties just because if the one who isn't involved is left alive, they could identify the shooter.

    Every now and again, they drag seemingly upstanding citizens, just regular people or students out in the desert and execute them, making it seem like a theft. Those are the incidents that I can't help but wonder about. Were those people actually a piece in the puzzle of the drug trade or was it just a random theft or a random act of violence?
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