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Preview: Silver or Lead

July 13, 2011 7:35 AM

Byron Pitts reports on the murder of the mayor of a Mexican city, where powerful drug gangs seem to be giving authorities a choice of "silver or lead" - join us and we will pay you or don't and we'll kill you. Sunday, July 17 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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by Reallybeenthere July 17, 2011 7:19 PM EDT
This show should be interesting. In the past four and a half years "almost 40,000 people" were killed in Mexico related to the drug wars. In the time period from 2005.5 throught 2009 there were approximately 74,000 homicides in the US. Now THAT is a story worth reporting!
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by tonstott1 July 17, 2011 7:12 PM EDT
Where is Andy Rooney? We miss him..
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