After a period of terror between 2010 and 2013, the old Zetas cartel that had dominated the town had been weakened, and violence had dropped. One shop owner counted 20 trucks but stopped counting when he saw that some had Texas plates — or no plates at all. The shop owner who noticed the odd license plates dove into his shop and hid behind the counter. AD“You don’t know what to think at a moment like that, you just hide,” said the shop owner. The gunfight lasted for an hour and a half and left four state police officers and at least nine attackers dead.

Source: Washington Post December 03, 2019 05:37 UTC