Mexico bloodbath, U.S. consternation

DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Washington: "Raging drug trade-fueled violence in northern Mexico – punctuated by a high-profile assassination this week – could spill across the border if not soon contained, U.S. policy-makers said Thursday.

But U.S. authorities differ on whether the problem is Mexico's alone to solve.

'It's terrible,' said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a day after Nuevo Laredo's newest police chief was slain in an ambush that carried all the earmarks of a drug gang hit. 'It's a big concern. I won't try to minimize it.'"