March 30, 2008
Drug cartels operate training camps near Texas border just inside Mexico

The Dallas Morning News

CAMARGO, Mexico -- The ranch near this border community is isolated, desolate and laced by arroyos – an ideal place, experts say, for training drug cartel assassins.

Mexican drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in at least six such locations in northern Tamaulipas and Nuevo León states, some within a few miles of the Texas border, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities and the printed testimony of five protected witnesses who were trained in the camps.

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Posted by tyne at March 30, 2008
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