Drug gangs drive off cops, terrorize US border town

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It’s amazing to think that this can happen 80 miles south of Texas. 

VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico – For people caught inside Mexico’s drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.

No town knows this better than Villa Ahumada, where the entire police force quit after 70 cartel hit men roared through last spring, killing the police chief, two officers and three townspeople.

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