Ranchers don’t have easy jobs, but when their work straddles both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, the work gets harder — and in some cases, it turns fatal.
This was made clear earlier this month when a Texas border rancher was killed on the Mexican side of his property by a suspected cartel IED.
Rancher Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, and Horacio Lopez Peña, were killed in the blast in Tamaulipas, Mexico, which was just south of Brownsville, Texas. Lopez’s wife, Ninfa Griselda Ortega, was hospitalized with injuries.
“A rancher, calloused hands, sun creased face, the kind of guy that gets up with the chickens in the morning and wrestling a living from Earth,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” says. “He stepped outside to just check on his herd.”
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“One moment, he is breathing in the morning air near Brownsville, Texas, and the next he’s gone,” he continues. “There was an IED, a coward’s weapon, planted by a cartel. It turned this American just living his life into pieces, a mangled memory.”
“This isn’t murder, this is a declaration of war by the cartels. So what did the…
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