Really? links please!
The particular serial killings that I am referring to overwhelmingly target young, dark-skinned women from the interior/South of Mexico.
http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=293
The Kidnapping Epidemic
But, not only fighting is erupting in the streets of Mexico. Mexico's lawlessness - an outbreak of kidnappings for ransom, brutal gunfights among rival drug cartels and escalating violence - has now crossed the border and touched many American families.
There stories are similar. Americans cross the Mexican-American border from Laredo, Texas to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to celebrate birthdays, holidays, or to shop or just to enjoy another culture.
But, one by one, these Americans failed to return home.
The families of the missing Americans say they were oblivious to the violence in Mexico until their families were shattered by it. Now, they are paralyzed by fear.
Thirty-one Americans have been reported as kidnapped just across the Mexican border. Seventeen are unaccounted for, 12 have returned and two have been confirmed killed, according to U.S. officials. Simple math draws a scary conclusion: there are more than a dozen Americans somewhere in the Nuevo Laredo area of Mexico - dead or alive.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458005/posts
Kidnapping, Murder Sweep Nuevo Laredo (41 Americans go missing)
Fox News ^ | 8/05/05
Posted on Friday, August 05, 2005 8:32:36 PM by Libloather
Kidnapping, Murder Sweep Nuevo Laredo
Friday, August 05, 2005
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — A city official in charge of public security was gunned down along with another man in the downtown area of the embattled city of Nuevo Laredo on Friday.
According to reports, it appeared to be an organized hit involving two cars.
Nuevo Laredo, just cross the border from the United States, has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Rival drug cartels have turned the city into a war zone as they battle for control of the lucrative illegal drug market in the U.S.
Gun battles in broad daylight are common, and the U.S. Consulate (search) has shut down, at least temporarily.
The drug gangs have killed the city's last two police chiefs, the second of whom lasted only six hours on the job. Widespread police corruption has compounded the problem. The entire 700-officer force was fired for corruption this summer, though many were hired back.
In addition to the killings, there has been an epidemic of kidnappings. There have been over 400 in the past year, including
dozens of Americans.