Item 673

Scope and Contents Segment #1: LAREDO BORDER VIOLENCE Just across from Laredo Texas, on the south bank of the Rio Grande, sits the other Laredo--Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. ..where it seems law and order has completely broken down. For the past year and a half, two of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless mafia organizations have been fighting over Nuevo Laredo and the drug smuggling routes that cross into the United States. Mexico has seen wars between drug cartels before-but the armed gangs have pitched...