What is going on in our sister city? The newspaper and TV stations in Nuevo Laredo are mum – understandably with all the threats they have received. What is weird is that the U.S. media is not reporting the war that is only a few miles away from us.
My friend was coming to visit today and she said she could not leave the house because there were more gun battles this morning near Colonia Guerrero by the Unidad Deportiva in Nuevo Laredo. Another friend said there was another gun battle this weekend after the big BOOMS of Friday night (Feb 19). Even my doctor told me that a friend of his was in Nuevo Laredo, was caught near the crossfire and was carjacked by gunmen whose car wouldn’t go anymore after being riddled with bullets. He, his wife & baby are safe but their car was taken as a getaway car.
It is crazy but crazier that we don’t know how to stay safe, who are the targets, where not to travel through and who is battling whom. Let’s just hope for minimal loss of innocent lives.
this is getting scary! rumor has it (and obviously commone sense) not to travel to nvo. laredo for at least 3 months….thank you for keeping us posted.
___classes in Nuevo Laredo cancelled early
___businesses closed
___Bridge is jammed packed of citizens fleeing
___reported soldiers and civilians wounded, kidnappings, gunbattles in the colonias
___reported gunbattles in Matamoros, Ciudad Acuna and Guerrero
___local police on the alert at the bridges
___more important, what’s gonna become of my social life ????
That’s crazy. 3 months?! I have to see my dentist to get a crown fitted.
N.Laredo and mayor Salinas deny any violence .
Don’t know who to fear more, the cartels or the mayor and media’s “nothing to see here, all is normal” attitude. :/
Been Watching Pro 8 News. They’ve had all the news and more.
How things have changed in only a couple months. Now most of Pro8News was about the violence. Sigh.
I would think the Mayor and his cornies. Why? At least with the cartels and zetas what you see is what you get, not so here with these fools!