Burning Atlanta

I know thousands of people travel there on a regular basis. I know most don't have problems. But you couldn't pay me enough to go to that shithole. For those of you who don't know, Nuevo Laredo is just across the border from Laredo, Texas. And their stench is spilling over to our side.

Target for the Day

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Gunmen wielding assault rifles attacked a vehicle carrying federal Congressman Horacio Garza in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, wounding him and killing his driver on Monday, just one day after the government announced a sweeping crackdown on drug-fueled crime in the area.

Garza was in stable condition after suffering gunshot wounds to the neck, leg and shoulder in the attack, but his driver, Hector Morales Juarez, died at the scene on a roadway leading to the city's airport.

Morales Juarez suffered about a half-dozen bullet wounds, and at least one to the head. The gunmen were apparently using AK-47 assault rifles, a favored weapon among hit men in northern Mexico.

Garza, of the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, serves in the lower house of Congress and previously served two terms as mayor of Nuevo Laredo.

On Sunday, the administration of President Felipe Calderon announced it was sending about 3,300 soldiers, sailors and federal police to the states of Tamaulipas — where Nuevo Laredo is located — and Nuevo Leon.