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Archibold uses the example of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos, a small cotton farming town near Texas, to describe how narco terrorist gangs take over small towns in Mexico. It's last police officer Érika Gándara (pictured) suddenly disappeared.
Narcos have turned it "into a frightened outpost of the drug war. Nearly half of its 9,000 residents have fled, local officials say, leaving block after block of scorched homes and businesses and, now, not one regular police officer."
“Small cities and towns are really highly impacted,” said Mexico expert Daniel Sabet. “They offer strongholds organized crime can hold and control.”
“There is no police, no fire department, no social services, nothing here,” said one Guadalupe resident.
“People get away with everything here. Nothing gets investigated, not even murders.”
ALSO: in the western village of Santa Maria del Oro, seven officers reportedly fled the police force after a deadly shootout. One fleeing cop said the other six “took their suitcases and left without saying anything,”
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=383691&CategoryId=14091%20
