Mexican Cities Ravaged By Drug Violence Struggle to Find New Police Recruits Manuel Rueda - Fusion
go to original September 27, 2014

NUEVO LAREDO — A year ago, traffic cop Alejandro Waldo couldn’t leave his office without a military escort.

Investigations of car accidents sometimes had to be postponed for hours, as Waldo waited for the army to show up at his office to set up a convoy.

Regular patrols of the city were out of the question, because it was too dangerous to be on the streets of Nuevo Laredo, a border town that has witnessed several turf wars between drug cartels over the past decade.

“It was hard to work here,” said Waldo, who specializes in investigating traffic accidents, but also hands out parking tickets.  “For 18 months, the military helped us, the soldiers would go out with us to the accidents and bring us back to the office.”

Now, as violence begins to wane in Nuevo Laredo and the Mexican military steps up operations in the city, the transit department once again patrols the streets.

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