NPR: Severe Drug Violence Moves into Mexican City Where Hershey Moved Much of their Production

[JPZenger]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128085047

Over the last several years, the Hershey Company has closed many plants in the US and Canada, including in Reading PA, and cut back over a thousand jobs in Hershey PA. Meanwhile, they built a huge new plant in Monterrey Mexico. Guess what's happening there?

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"Late last month the chief of the Monterrey transit police was kidnapped along with his deputy. Over the past three weeks more than a dozen police officers from the area have been abducted and killed. One was even decapitated.

In April masked gunmen stormed the Holiday Inn and hauled off several guests. They haven't been heard from since...

Earlier this month, when the Mexican army captured a man alleged to be one of Los Zetas' operatives in Monterrey, gunmen waded into traffic with their weapons drawn. They pulled drivers out of their cars, trucks and buses, and then turned the vehicles sideways in the streets.

The blockades caused instantaneous gridlock. The idea was to try to block the soldiers from moving through the streets with their prisoner.

The secretary general of the local state government says Los Zetas set up 28 blockades across Monterrey that day. The local media counted 40 barriers. Traffic was tied up for hours."