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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Gang wars plague Mexican drugs hub

The ironic part? They're the ones dying, and we're the ones buying.

Raul Llamas inspects the gaping holes gouged in the wall of a house in Nuevo Laredo by a rocket-propelled grenade. "It's like Iraq, isn't it? We are in the middle of a war here. Two narco-trafficking gangs are trying to get control," the Mexican radio journalist says. He used to report on the cartels for a local radio station. But one of his colleagues was killed earlier this year. Now he does different stories. "It's very difficult to be a reporter here," he says. "People are too scared."

The bridges which cross the Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo to Laredo, Texas, tell the story. The stream of people seeking a better life flows one way only. The US side is still relatively free from trouble, while on the Mexican side, there are almost daily kidnappings and assassinations.

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