Life on the border between the United States and Mexico in Laredo, TX. On the one hand, we already feel like we are in Mexico, since almost every single person we have seen in this city is Mexican. (It’s kind of strange feeling like a foreigner in your own country!) On the other hand, Laredo definitely looks like a city in the US, with chain restaurants and retailers lining the interstate.
Here are a few interesting facts about Laredo:
It was the capital of The Republic of The Rio Grande when this section of Mexico succeeded from Mexico in 1840 (for 10 short months)
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo after the Mexican-American war ceded the land and the city to the United States. (the city protested, petitioning the US government to cede the city back to Mexico. When the US refused, a majority of the population moved across the river to found Nuevo Laredo.
It is the largest inland port in the US.
