Robert Odom

Gun smuggling case in New Mexico

Global Politics

Monica Ortiz Uribe reports on a New Mexico border town that was once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. It’s in the news now because some local officials were arrested on charges of smuggling guns into Mexico. Which town?

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