Matamoros woke up this Cinco de Mayo not to the sounds of a holiday parade, but to the rat-tat-tat of machine gun fire as the drug cartels battled it out with the military and the local police along the Calle Sexta and Periferico.
"Ta gachisimo guey!" said a 24-year-old UTB-TSC college student who said he called the school to say he couldn't make it to class this morning. "They thought I was celebrating Cinco de Mayo and I told them the ta-ta-ta-ta on the telephone was that of metralletas (machine guns) and not firecrackers."
He said most of the time residents can feel when a showdown is about to occur and can usually get around the police or cartel blockades so they can get to work or school.
"This time we didn't get a chance to get going," he said. "I was getting ready to leave early today then it was like the Batalla de Puebla but with machine guns. Asi que ni modo, I'm staying home, working on my Ipad."
A Brownsville Independent School District administrator said she began to worry when her housekeeper did not show up at the bridge this morning and when she tried to call her this morning the phone lines were tied up. "She finally got a hold of me and told me she couldn't leave her house and that people around the Sexta and Periferico neighborhood were boarding up their windows in anticipation of a long siege.
"She called me again and said the street shooting had moved to Calle Sexta and apparently they are trying to take over a police station there and it's all hell breaking loose."
3 comments:
We see that the fighting isn't considered serious until a Matamoros resident can't get to this side for school (which we are probably funding) or a teacher gets upset because her housekeeper can't get to this side to work. We citizens of Brownsville sure have the right priorities...it isn't the fighting in Mexico or the violence of the fighting, its the INCONVENIENCE of that fighting on our every day lives. As long as cheap labor can come across every day without trouble....most people here are happy. What a shame. We just don't care about anything except having someone clean our house, cut our grass, cook our meals, care for our kids. This is the reason that Brownsville can't move forward, because we have so many whiney assholes who only thing (if they can) about themselves.
A Brownsville Independent School District administrator said she began to worrry about her housekeeper. Pos que gacha, the administrator should give room and board to the housekeeper.
Just like in the movie "A day without a mexican".
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