Nuevo Laredo

[ nwey-voh luh-rey-doh, noo-ey-; Spanish nwe-vaw lah-re-thaw ]

noun

1. a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.

Nuevo Laredo

/ ˈnweβo laˈreðo /

noun

1. a city and port of entry in NE Mexico, in Tamaulipas state on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas: oil industries. Pop: 353 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The hardest blow life dealt Lozano was at the age of 17, when she found her grandmother dead in her home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico — something that put her in “a hole she felt she could never get out of.”

From Los Angeles Times

Lozano and her mother had not heard from her grandmother for days, so they decided to visit her in Nuevo Laredo.

From Los Angeles Times

In the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, a shadowy group that local media reports link to the dominant Northeast drug cartel has put up posters claiming one mayoral candidate is linked to the rival Gulf drug cartel.

From Seattle Times

Minutes after arriving at the airport on the Mexico side of the border in Nuevo Laredo — a cartel hub notorious for shake-downs and abductions of migrants — Guerrero said he and his wife and son were shoved into a vehicle and taken to a cartel safe house.

From Los Angeles Times

And during a blackout in the city of Nuevo Laredo, near the Texas border, they asked people to avoid driving.

From New York Times