Texas doctor braves Mexican cartels to buy and distribute masks

Los Angeles

Tom Banning obviously never imagined that he would one day find himself in the situation of organizing a network if not clandestine, at least draped in mystery, to get a product, not only legal but essential, from Mexico to Texas as s 'It was a vulgar contraband.

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Director of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, this doctor helps transport hundreds of thousands of masks to his state, made in a factory in Matamoros, a dangerous border town in the northeast of Mexico, the plaza of the violent cartel. from the Gulf. "I cannot reveal the name of the factory or its exact location for fear of a reaction from the cartel," he said, refusing to speculate on the nature of this reaction. Is he afraid that the criminal organization will want to get hold of this modest manna (each mask costs $ 1.20)? "All I can tell you is that the factory made equipment for workers in the oil fields, that its

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