Introducing Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is Mexico’s busiest border town (36% of all its international trade passes through here) but it’s much more famous as ‘Narco’ Laredo, a reference to brazen violence between rival drug cartels that has sullied the city’s reputation. But it isn’t the fear of getting caught in the crossfire that should send you south as fast as you can (Nuevo Laredo is actually quite safe, and there’s a heavy police presence along Guerrero until very late in the evening); it’s that the city has little offer other than the usual cheap trinkets, tequila and tricks found in most border towns.
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Originally there was only one Laredo, north of the Río Bravo, but in 1848, following the end of the Mexican-American War, the city joined the USA. Over 100 families who didn’t to give up Mexican citizenship crossed south, bringing all their belongings with them: including, according to legend, the dug-up caskets of their buried relatives. Today ‘Los Dos Laredos’ remain very close.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Driving to Mexico from Ontario (Toronto to Puerto Vallarta)
by RGM 01 September 2011
I just realized that I have my directions wrong! The No-Tell motel "Paradis" in Nuevo Laredo is on the EAST side!!!!!!! That's why there…
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Re: Texas to Mexican Interior via Laredo in bus
by Altahabana 25 August 2011
+*Almost all of the Grupo Senda trips from Laredo into the interior border-cross late in the evening or very early in the morning, which…
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Texas to Mexican Interior via Laredo in bus
by gregvb 24 August 2011
Hey guys. Thanks to some earlier help I received on this forum, I have decided to slow travel down from Texas to Oaxaca and see some of…
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