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22 February 2008

Citizens to Vote on Installation of Border Fence–In Mexico!

[Allan Wall] @ 8:55 pm [Email author] [Email This Article] [Print This Article]
This Sunday, a referendum is scheduled, allowing citizens to vote yes or no on the installation of a border fence.

This referendum isn’t being held in the U.S., but in Mexico, in the Monterrey suburb of San Nicolas, whose mayor wants to put up a fence on San Nicolas’ border with its neighbor Guadalupe (see map). Reportedly, thieves are coming over from Guadalupe to steal things in San Nicolas,and the border is a scene of gang activity.

San Nicolas Mayor Zeferino Salgado has proposed a 5-mile long fence, over 6 and a half feet high, along the river La Talaverna, which forms the border between San Nicolas and Guadalupe.

So this Sunday, February 24th, a referendum is scheduled in San Nicolas. Eligible to vote are the residents of the 10 colonias (neighborhoods) adjoining the border. (Voter ID cards are to be checked to prevent outsiders from voting.)

The young mayor, known as “Chefoâ€