Business Without Borders, 8/1/2012
Gangster-on-gangster violence has little impact on bustling cross-border trade
While families in the Mexican industrial city of Monterrey were celebrating their beloved madres during Mother’s Day on May 10 this year, local authorities were engaged in a less agreeable activity beside a highway outside of town: searching for clues at a roadside scene where 49 headless bodies had been dumped in the pre-dawn hours. The “Mother’s Day Massacre” was just the latest in a series of atrocities in northeast Mexico, where drugs cartels are waging all-out war against each other.
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