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The peculiar fluidity of the borderland was drying up as it was slowly sapped away by two unappeasable forces: the cartels on one side, the reactionaries on the other.

But their operation to seize one of the boats used by drug cartels on Carti Island, off Panama's Caribbean coast, has met with resistance from local people.

More Photos » War Without Borders A Divided Land This series examines the impact of Mexican drug cartels on both sides of the border.

McKinney believes it is more cost-effective than constructing permanent towers and could help border personnel keep drug cartels on their toes.

His original autopsy, conducted by the state prosecutor, said the skin on his face could have been peeled off by a knife, a terror tactic known to be used by drug cartels on their victims.

At any time, there are 30,000 containers in Nuevo Laredo awaiting transportation, and a portion of them will be loaded with extra goods which do not appear on the ledgers, waved through by border officials bought by the cartels, on both sides.

Moreover, unlike most cartel-on-cartel crime, the violence extends to ordinary citizens.

That year, Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel took on Juarez cartel rivals over turf, littering the city of low-wage export assembly plants with its daily toll of gunshot victims and mutilated corpses.

Calderón has performed admirably in deploying government forces to confront drug cartels head-on.

In a press conference he endorsed the strategy of using the army to attack the cartels head-on.

Mr. Almunia, who took over from Neelie Kroes in February, insisted that he was just as tough on cartels and on other violations of European competition law as his predecessors.