The U.S. authorized the departure of families and some personnel at the U.S. consulate in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo. The move came after drug cartel gunmen fired at the U.S. consulate building across the border from Laredo, Texas
The United States authorized the departure of families and some personnel Wednesday at the U.S. consulate in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo. The move came after drug cartel gunmen fired at the U.S. consulate building in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, during Sunday night.
The gunfire late Sunday and early Monday came in retaliation for the arrest of drug gang leader Juan Gerardo Treviño, also known as"El Huevo." U.S. authorities describe him as a founder and leader of the Northeast Cartel, the successor to the old Zetas cartel. Ricardo Mejia, Mexico's assistant secretary of public safety, said Treviño was a U.S. citizen and not a Mexican and he was deported Tuesday.
Copies of Mexican birth and baptism certificates and the equivalent of a social security card in Treviño's name circulated on social media sites Wednesday, suggesting he had Mexican citizenship. But the authenticity of those documents could not be verified. Searches in government websites using the data on the documents returned an"information not correct" response.
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