Two years ago, the turf battle was over Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.
In December, 2010, a hundred and fifty-one Zetas broke out of jail in Nuevo Laredo.
The police chief in nearby Nuevo Laredo was gunned down his first day on the job.
On May 4th nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge, and 14 decapitated, in Nuevo Laredo, a Zeta stronghold in Tamaulipas.
Investigator Ricardo Mancillas Castillo said he had not encountered a threat against Internet users in his four years based in Nuevo Laredo.
Nuevo Laredo is close to the Interstate 35 corridor, and Juarez has easy access to I-10, a major east-west interstate, and I-25, which runs north to Denver, Colorado.
In the case of the two victims found on the Nuevo Laredo bridge Tuesday, their ears and fingers were mutilated, said Mancillas, who works for the public prosecutor's office.
In June, in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the police chief and then his successor were gunned down in drug-related shootings, the second chief just hours after he took office.
This week, a man and a woman in their 20s were tortured, killed and hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, with signs by their bodies saying the death sentence was for their Internet use.
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Stratfo notes that two individuals were murdered and hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo bearing signs warning not to post on blogs, while a girl who contributed to anti-cartel blogs was found beheaded in Nuevo Laredo.
The Zetas, who are estimated to have more than ten thousand fighters, control virtually the entire east coast of Mexico, and have laid claim to several of the busiest cargo crossing points on the U.S. border, including Matamoros, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo.
The subsequent investigation has led to the firing of 100 of the force's 700 officers who failed either drug or polygraph tests, and to the rescue, on June 27th, of 43 people who had been held captive by drug gangs in Nuevo Laredo.
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