As the survivor of what’s being called a pirate assault on Falcon Lake, Texas, recounts the harrowing ordeal that likely took her husband’s life, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is leading calls for a tough US response to spillover violence from Mexico’s bloody drug wars onto American soil.
The Falcon Lake attack, where three boats likely connected to the Zeta drug-running gang reportedly shot at 30-year-old David Hartley and his wife, Tiffany Hartley, while they rode personal watercraft, now threatens to become an international incident. On Tuesday the mother of Mr. Hartley begged US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to intervene in efforts to try to locate his still-missing body.
The pleas from the border came as authorities in Texas reported other evidence of Mexican drug violence in the US, including a bullet-riddled truck found on the US side of the border last week with the bodies of two Mexican nationals inside – an act of violence that Brownsville Police Chief Carlos Garcia described as a cartel-ordered “hit.”
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