By Maxim Kniazkov

Special to Insight

LAREDO, Texas – This border area is one of the least publicized international crisis zones. More Americans have been kidnapped just in this area than in all of Iraq by Islamic terrorists.

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It is late Sunday morning, and streets in Nuevo Laredo’s commercial district remain eerily empty. As many as 176 people were killed in the city last year amid a turf war between drug cartels. (Photo by Maxim Kniazkov)