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| | CBS News | Mexico: U.S. Border Alert Unfair | January 27, 2005 16:00:01 |
 | | Luis Ernesto Derbez's comments late Wednesday to Mexico's Televisa television network came in response to the U.S. alert and an accompanying letter from U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza, both issued earlier Wednesday. |
 | | In the letter, addressed to Derbez and Mexican federal Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Garza said he was concerned that growing drug-related violence and kidnappings on the Mexican side of the border would have a "chilling" effect on trade and tourism between the countries. |
 | | Derbez took a harder line, telling Televisa that he and other officials would provide a "punctual, very concrete response to these types of statements, which seem to us, in large measure, exaggerated, and outside the scope of reality, because the Mexican government has taken concrete actions" against criminal groups operating along the border. |
| www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/27/terror/main669840.shtml (683 words) |
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