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border highways, border zones

14 years ago
For those of you considering driving across the border from the USA to Mexico, you may want to give flying greater consideration.

I was in Monterrey a week ago, and a Monterrey newspaper, on its front page, was advising Mexican readers to not travel from Monterrey to Reynosa. Nuevo Laredo to Matamoros is considered a problem area. I haven´t witnessed anything worrisome in this area, but when trucks of Mexican soldiers with automatic rifles pointed over the cabs of the trucks drive by, I don´t feel comfortable.

This Brownsville newspaper in front of me states that 2500 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez last year. The population of Ciudad Juarez is around 1,401,000. The murder rate is over 1 person per 1000 per year.

There have been a few kidnappings of Americans on the U.S. side of the border; I read about one that occurred in McAllen, TX. The victims were smuggled into Mexico and held for ransom.

Of course the warnings about Tijuana and Nogales are still in effect.

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