Alejandro Dominguez-Coello, the police chief of Nuevo Laredo, was killed on his first day on the job.Nuevo Laredo is one of Mexico's Top 15 cities. This is not some little town in the middle of nowhere. It would be like having the police chief of Jacksonville, Florida, shot 35 times by a gang of thugs.
Question: Where was Mr. Dominguez' security escort? How does a gang of killers get this close to a police chief in a large town?
The answer is that Pres. Vicente Fox has lost control of the border. It is run by drug dealers and their armed gangs.
It's time for Pres. Fox to use the Mexican military to meet these thugs head on. Otherwise, the north of Mexico will continue to deteriorate with serious economic consequences to all concerned.
