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Article: Mexican federal agents will begin leaving rough border city Thursday
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- June 14, 2005
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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-14-2005
Dateline: NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico
Federal agents sent in to quell a wave of violence in this border city will start leaving Thursday, and will slowly be replaced by city police who were temporarily pulled off patrols to undergo an intense screening process, officials said Tuesday.
Mexican Army special forces and federal police manned checkpoints surrounding the city and patrolled streets while municipal police officers waited for their guns to be reissued.
Streets were lively, as residents who recently stayed put in their homes ventured out again amid the heavy security. However, Ramon Garza, selling tacos out of the back of ...