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13 August 2011

MEXICO / USA: Worried Visitors Now Avoid The Short Drive... Instead Fly Across The Border.

                                        AP/ C. Sherman


    Not long ago, trips from prosperous Monterrey to visit family or shop in McAllen, Texas were so common that there was a verb for it: "vamos a McAllear."
     But constant bloody narco battles have transformed the 2½-hour drive on an empty highway...into a lottery of death.
     Now rich Mexicans fly the short distance instead.
    For the first 6 months...private plane passengers from Mexico to McAllen...is up by 93% v 2009.
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