It’s been a helluva month here on the border in the aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the several tropical storms that followed.
At one point, all roads between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey were closed for several days resulting in a backup of an estimated 11-22,000 trucks.
Parts of Reynosa are still underwater as the Rio Grande is slow in returning to normal there.
Laredo Texas looks as if a tsunami hit the banks of the Rio Grande where at one point, the water was lapping at the side beams of the international bridge, 60 feet above the river.
Freight in the area is still slow in getting back across the border as the maquillas in Monterrey and elsewhere are slowly recovering and gearing back up to full capacity.
Continue with the post below the break to view photos of the disaster.
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PFP seizes weapons in Reynosa imported from the US
REYNOSA, Mexico – Federal police in Reynosa made a bust at home and now several hundred pounds of drugs and lots of guns are in their custody.
An anonymous tip led authorities to the house. No one was home at the time of the raid. But police did find 10 packages of marijuana and several automatic assault rifles.
They also took into custody a Dodge truck with Mexican plates and over 30 bullet holes. No arrests have been made in this case.
There is a 95-percent chance those assault rifles in Reynosa were bought in the U.S. That’s according to new information being released this morning by the ATF and the FBI.
They’re in El Paso at the 5th Annual Border Security Conference. Officials from both sides of the border say they are getting lots of results from Project Gunrunner, where U.S. and Mexican authorities share information and can track individual guns.
The director of the FBI also says they are working with Mexican officials as part of an anti-kidnapping effort in Laredo.
MONTERREY, Mexico — The chief of police of Reynosa, the city across the Rio Grande from McAllen and Hidalgo, was detained by federal police Thursday, according to Mexican media reports and officials.Statements issued by Reynosa’s city hall said Juan José Muñiz Salinas was detained at 1:20 p.m. by federal police officers.
City officials said the arresting officers presumably had a warrant requiring Muñiz to appear before federal authorities, but said they did not know about any charges against him.
Mexican news media reported Muñiz was arrested on suspicion of collaborating with the Gulf Cartel, the regionally dominant narcotics smuggling organization.
A federal police official said Muñiz was in custody but was unable to provide specifics.
The Reynosa police force was one of numerous Mexican border city departments raided by the military in January. Soldiers seized weapons for ballistic tests.
The January raids came after four officers in Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, were arrested on suspicion of relaying information on police operations to drug traffickers.
Analysts said the raids were probably to send a message to local police forces, which are often threatened or bribed into cooperating with drug gangs.
Muñiz recently criticized the raids in an interview with the Washington Post, suggesting that anti-narcotics investigators should direct their attention at state and federal police and the military.
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