Drug trafficking and mob rule at US border town

EXT Police officer on motorbike speaking to Omar Pimentel (Police chief, Nuevo Laredo) in street Pimentel along on street surrounded by bodyguards (2 SHOTS) Pimentel into car with bodyguards (2 SHOTS) INT CAR Pimentel speaking on mobile phone CS Side mirror showing police escort in b/g Policemen on back of car (2 SHOTS) INT Omar Pimentel (Police chief, Nuevo Laredo) interviewed SOT (translated) - I am glad the people and the Mayor have trusted me with this job/ We are working to improve police officers' salaries, improving their life standards so they don't fall prey to corruption, because if they do fall into corruption they will be out of here, they will be sacked CUTAWAY Police officer on patrol EXT Police officers at side of road checking man for possession of illegal goods (3 SHOTS) Rene Martinez (Journalist) interviewed SOT - We have a lot of people that have disappeared and they are constantly receiving death warnings from the Mob Martinez having shoes polished (5 SHOTS) Martinez interview SOT - No I don't think so (that the police chief is doing a good job), he is trying to stay alive, survive CUTAWAY Rugman with Martinez as shoes are polished DUSK GV River at border between Nuevo Laredo and Laredo in Texas USA: Texas: Laredo: Train along on tracks Flags flying on mast INT Man putting up poster for missing people CS Poster showing image of Yvette Martinez (disappeared during trip to Nuevo Laredo) GV Missing persons poster Slemaker interviewed SOT - We just want answers, even if it's a coffin Slemaker putting up missing person poster in office Man with poster for missing woman Slemaker interviewed SOT - Now whether our daughters were kidnapped by them we can't say, but we have heard that municipal police took them and gave them as gifts, to the leader of one of these criminal organisations MEXICO: Nuevo Laredo: EXT Federal officers on patrol (4 SHOTS) Federal police officers in back of trucks INT Raf...
EXT Police officer on motorbike speaking to Omar Pimentel (Police chief, Nuevo Laredo) in street Pimentel along on street surrounded by bodyguards (2 SHOTS) Pimentel into car with bodyguards (2 SHOTS) INT CAR Pimentel speaking on mobile phone CS Side mirror showing police escort in b/g Policemen on back of car (2 SHOTS) INT Omar Pimentel (Police chief, Nuevo Laredo) interviewed SOT (translated) - I am glad the people and the Mayor have trusted me with this job/ We are working to improve police officers' salaries, improving their life standards so they don't fall prey to corruption, because if they do fall into corruption they will be out of here, they will be sacked CUTAWAY Police officer on patrol EXT Police officers at side of road checking man for possession of illegal goods (3 SHOTS) Rene Martinez (Journalist) interviewed SOT - We have a lot of people that have disappeared and they are constantly receiving death warnings from the Mob Martinez having shoes polished (5 SHOTS) Martinez interview SOT - No I don't think so (that the police chief is doing a good job), he is trying to stay alive, survive CUTAWAY Rugman with Martinez as shoes are polished DUSK GV River at border between Nuevo Laredo and Laredo in Texas USA: Texas: Laredo: Train along on tracks Flags flying on mast INT Man putting up poster for missing people CS Poster showing image of Yvette Martinez (disappeared during trip to Nuevo Laredo) GV Missing persons poster Slemaker interviewed SOT - We just want answers, even if it's a coffin Slemaker putting up missing person poster in office Man with poster for missing woman Slemaker interviewed SOT - Now whether our daughters were kidnapped by them we can't say, but we have heard that municipal police took them and gave them as gifts, to the leader of one of these criminal organisations MEXICO: Nuevo Laredo: EXT Federal officers on patrol (4 SHOTS) Federal police officers in back of trucks INT Raf...
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01 November, 2005
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