People who have lived along the border for years recognize the odd paradox: this side of the border is still relatively safe while south of the river has become a No-Man’s Land of sorts for a lot of us.The old shopping trips to Reynosa, and then dinner at either La Cucaracha or La Fogata, driving there well after dark no big deal, are a thing of the distant past for many of us who haven’t crossed the bridge in more than 10 years. More years for some, considering that the Mexican federales actually went to war with the drug cartels ...