Is Miguel Alemán the Next to Fall to Drug Violence?

MIGUEL ALEMÁN — The bullet holes on the truck tell the story, the man in this border town said on Easter Sunday. The shootouts are no longer relegated to the outskirts of town.

The pickup with Texas plates sits parked; bullet holes have pierced the sides of the body panels. “That happened just right here, the other day,” he says, in Spanish, of the shootout. The man, who asked not to be identified out of fear for his safety, lives less than a dozen blocks from the border that Miguel Alemán shares with the South Texas town of Roma ...

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