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Salvador Baeza, owner of a stockyard in Presidio, exports unwanted horses to Mexico, where they are slaughtered. Thousands of horses bound for slaughter in Mexico are exported through Presidio each year. Nearly a decade after the last three horse slaughterhouses closed in the United States _ including two in Texas _ the trafficking of American horses for slaughter continues and the controversy burns as fiercely as ever. (Billy Calzada/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT
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