War: Border Conflict: Mexican-US border tensions increase, US consulate Nuevo Laredo closes for next week

Remember when, not so very long ago, I was reading developments along the US-Mexico border, and had come across info that I blogged for you in regard to a city called Nuevo Laredo, on the Mexican side, across the Rio Grande river just opposite to Laredo, Texas? And how I got downright prognosticatory that round? Well, your may want to return to that blog entry before getting into the thck or thin of this one. Try here: Mexico/US: Border war coming? Mex Spec Forces renegades carve out own principality at border, drugs cartel. I wasn't hallucinating. There have been developments, I say laconically. The tale sounds like a bit of absurdist theatre, tho more than macabre, rather dangerous.

Yesterday came word that the drug cartels mentioned in my first blog entry on this theme, have come to dominate the story. Drug cartels battle it out in Nuevo Laredo, Reuters via Houston Chronicle, July 29, 2005.

But today my first emphasis on the renegade Mexican Special Forces who turned on their government, after being trained by the US inside the USA's territory, now have invaded the US in order to protect the drug product they export from Nuevo Laredo, once it crosses the border out of Mexico to the Great Neighbour to the North. I dared to use then in question form only the expression on my mind - "Border war coming?" Well, it's here. But not with the government of Mexico, nor strictly with the cartels, altho it's the money that talks and keeps the mercenaries profitably employed at what they do best. Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S., by Jerry Seper, Washington Times, August 1, 2005. Of course, this development has meant that the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been cut off from its nearest access points to American territory, the city itself is somewhat under seige, and so is the Consulate to the endangerment of any American tourists who have been so vacuously airheaded as to visit or remain in those parts, long past due for fast exit. - Owlb

For more info on the closing of the Consulate, at least for a week, click the title of this blog entry. For the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, click here.