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https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/NLblog.accordion.AP_.jpg400292You don't notice it at first. Not with the people seemingly moving as normal on the sidewalks and the happy recorded music blaring across the plaza in front of city hall to announce the annual cowboy parade. No, at first Nuevo Laredo looks like a regular border town, until the military armored car goes by…