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Security & Strategic Review November 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Mass flight from besieged border city
In mid-November the governor of Tamaulipas, Eugenio Hernández, who
only days earlier had been arguing that his jurisdiction was far from being a
failed state, announced that the municipal and state police had been
overwhelmed by the firepower of the cartels, and that a greater federal presence
was needed in Ciudad Mier, Miguel Alemán, Guerrero, Camargo and Díaz
Ordaz.
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