MEXICO: Tamaulipas' Troubled Narco War Described.

WSJ/ NICHOLAS CASEY And JOSé DE CóRDOBA /
   An excellent longish summary of the sad and shocking ongoing troubles in the northern border states of Nuevo Laredo and Tamaulipas as two narco terrorist gangs battle it out there for supremacy.
   An expert estimates that 90% of Tamaulipas is controlled by drug gangs and killings there account for almost 17% of the total nationwide--1,300 so far in 2010.
    Tamaulipas is the state where the 6,000 residents of Cd. Mier have literally abandoned their city to the narcos. Their little town used to be called a "Pueblo Magico" because of its unspoiled charms. Now its empty streets feature only festering dead bodies.
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MEXICO: Border Violence Spreads Eastward To Reynosa

AP/ MIAMI HERALD/    A crumbling alliance between two drug gangs is plunging a 200-mile stretch of Mexico's Eastern border with the U.S. into new violence. From Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo at least 49 people have been killed in less than six weeks. It started in January when an alliance between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas was broken after a Zetas was murdered in Reynosa.