She declined to specify how he criss-crossed the heavily guarded frontier, saying only: "I asked him the same, believe me".
There were no schools or hospitals, or policemen to guard the frontier against smugglers or terrorists.
But Bill Bollendorf, who runs the Galerie Macondo, in Pittsburgh, explained that the three skeletal figures in the doorway are guede, members of a family of spirits who guard the frontier between life and death.
During their campaign in Poland, the Germans kept only 23 divisions in the west to guard their frontier against the French, who had nearly five times as many divisions mobilized.
In addition, she transferred 12 of the 19 Moscow regiments from the city to guard the frontier and revoked many of the privileges she had granted the troops when she seized power.
More crucially, the mobilization of the Belgian army, which was divided into a mobile Army of Observation to guard the frontier and the static Army of Antwerp to hold the National Redoubt, revealed key structural problems in the military, particularly with the system of conscription.
We said, 'Guard your frontiers, and we'll guard ours.' They haven't done it".
His tone reminded me of soldiers who guard national frontiers to keep illegal aliens from smuggling themselves in.
Thanks to Hamas forces guarding the frontier against militants, he adds, children in Israel's border towns can sleep in their beds, not in shelters, and no longer go to school in armoured buses.But Israel's reciprocal promise to help revive Gaza's economy has not been kept.
