WARDEN MESSAGE - RECEIVED 04-12-11

[meroberts]

If you are traveling to the border please see this notice:

The United States Consulate General in Matamoros advised U.S. Citizens of the potential hazards of highway travel in Tamaulipas.

For further information please follow the next link http://matamoros.usconsulate.gov/wm04082011en.html

[colleen]

Well, I haven't gone to the website but have gone to Tamaulipas. We got back last Thursday and traveled north the Sunday before. We crossed at Pharr on Sunday since it is fast and we didn't need to sit in line refusing to buy crucifixes and Last Suppers which must be even worse at this time of year. No problems. As we got closer to Reynosa there were slow downs w/ Federeales and policia looking in the window. Then on the way back on Thursday there was a stop w/ tons of federales and their cars and a large truck w/ a thing over the road which everyone had to drive under. It was advertised as x-raying for drugs and arms. On the way south we used the much shorter bridge in centro. So...everything the same as it was in previous years.