USA/Mexico: Terror Town
13 minutes, 2005
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We report from the frontier of the US-Mexico drugs trade in what’s dubbed the most dangerous town in the area. Bodies dumped in the streets. A multi-billion dollar narcotics route. A new police chief gunned down just hours into the job - just one of nearly 150 people murdered in the Mexican border town of Neuvo Laredo this year. Both the US and Mexican authorities have recently ramped up efforts to combat the drug traffickers - but the portents are not good. We went to Laredo in Texas - and its once sleepy sister town of Nuevo Laredo across the river in Mexico - to find out how the cartels continue to stay one step ahead of the cops.