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BORDER TROUBLES
* Mex/USA - Fear rules in the deadly border towns of Mexico
"Please, please don't use my name or take a photograph," the interim chief said...
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -Fort Worth Star Telegram (Fort Worth,TX,USA), by SAM ENRIQUEZ and RICHARD MAROSI -Nov. 24, 2006: -- The top cop in this unhinged city across the border from Texas has 300 openings on a 600-member police force, and his fearful greeting gave a big clue why... "Please, please don't use my name or take a photograph," the interim chief said... One police chief was killed last year, a second quit in the spring and no one else appears brave or foolhardy enough to work this side of the law in Nuevo Laredo... Mexican President Vicente Fox quietly withdrew the federal police that he had dispatched with great fanfare last year to bring peace, leaving the city virtually unprotected in a smuggling war that's claimed 170 lives since January... This isn't the only border city where law and order are on the ropes... In Tijuana, the rate of kidnappings ranks among the world's worst, and some state police officers have refused postings after the killings of more than a dozen officers in paramilitary-style ambushes... Organized crime is out of control, Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon said this month... With government all but ceding control of the border, civil society has fallen into disarray or been cowed into silence. Newspapers in Nuevo Laredo have stopped reporting drug killings under pressure from advertisers, the government and drug dealers... Residents take pains to dodge the menace of drug trafficking. Some deny it exists... "If you behave on the streets, you won't get into trouble," Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernandez Flores told potential investors during a recent business forum in Nuevo Laredo...
* India/Pakistan - 200 trucks stranded at the border
Wagah,India -PTI/Outlook (New Delhi,India) -Nov 24, 2006: -- Nearly 200 trucks carrying export goods to Pakistan are stranded at the Indo-Pak border in Wagah waiting for necessary clearances... The trucks, loaded with perishable goods such as tomato, onion, frozen meat and ginger, were stuck in the international border and the companies were bearing the parking cost of Rs 500 per day, sources said... The goods were also getting spoiled due to lack of basic mandatory infrastructure such as airconditioned warehouse, they said... Exporters blame the Indian Customs Authority for their negligent attitude that was leading to the wastage...
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