AP/C.SHERMAN/Long Read
In 2010...9 months of daily bloody narco battles, murders and disappearances turned Cuidad Mier into a virtual ghost town.
Almost a third of its 8,000 residents have left the town that sits on a crucial drug route.
President Calderon has made normalizing Mier the cause celebre in his narco pacification effort.
In October...he sent in a battalion of 653 soldiers...behind a military band...to publicize new mobile barracks there and re-established control.
Popular Posts
- Microsoft's Gaffe: Black Man In US Ad Becomes White In Poland.
- BELARUS: 13 April UPDATE: 2 "Confess" For Minsk Subway Bomb That Killed 12, Injuring 200..
- Petrobras Eyes Angola For More Oil Investments.
- ANIMALS / HUMOR / IMAGES : Cats: Love Them Or Hate Them; Website Now Lets Owners Shame Them.
- Who's Afraid Of Big, Bad...Rupert Murdoch?
- HUNGARY: 40,000 Protest Austerity Measures In Budapest.
- SERBIA / LIBYA : Are Serbian Mercenary Pilots Bombing Protestors In Tripoli?
- BRASIL : Dilma Wins Port Privatization Approval From Congress.
- HONDURAS: Poll Shows Majority Consider Zelaya The President.
- BRASIL: Pantless Lover...Barely Escapes Jealous Husband...From 3rd Floor.