The two have disappeared into a violence-wracked country that's torn by an ongoing war between organized crime cartels, as well as their ongoing battles with Mexico's military and police. Angeles has been with the paper for 10 years, covering a range of issues, from environment to government and most recently wrote an article on an indigenous family being attacked by armed assailants.
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He wrote a story about the people who live in the city dump, picking garbage for a living, and began taking pictures at crime scenes. But the work was dangerous. And one night someone poured blood on Plemmons' door. After only a few months working for the papers, Plemmons acquiesced to his family's request that he move back to San Antonio.
When they arrived in Nuevo Laredo too late to catch the bus, his mother dropped him off at the Hotel Alameda, which overlooks a large plaza about seven blocks from the international bridge.
It was the last time she saw him. A clerk at the Alameda told them that at about 10 p. Plemmons rushed out with camera in hand and never came back.
Several hours later, the clerk told his mother, masked gunmen came and stole everything from his room, including his laptop. On Monday afternoon, the Alameda was closed, with heavy chains and a padlock on the front door. People in the adjacent plaza said it had been out of business for weeks. The city, for the last decade a hotspot of cartel violence, has seen conflicts increase this year as the Sinaloa Cartel challenged the Zetas for control of the region.
In April and May, the dueling cartels dumped dozens of mutilated bodies around the city.
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