MEXICO: Saltillo Caught-up In Battle For Narco Routes.

CNN

  Until now, the 700,000 residents of Saltillo have lived is a quaint colonial city best known for its auto industry with GM, Chrysler and Freightliner plants.
   But the Austin-based global intelligence company Stratfor claims the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels have joined in an alliance called the New Federation to fight the  Zetas for control of drug routes there.
  "There were pacts here, and now those pacts are broken and a battle has begun between various criminal groups for this territory. This is evident," said Raul Vera, the Catholic bishop of Saltillo.