The city of Juarez has had yet another mass murder. Seven SUVs pulled up in front of a teenager's house during his birthday party. Masked gunmen ran out of SUVs and into the building opening fire on the teenagers. It is suspected that many of these "innocent" teenagers were members of a gang that had been selling drugs to the United States.
Juarez city has had more than its far share of murders recently. This city has had roughly 2,000 drug-related murders within the past year. Juarez's proximity to Texas makes it an ideal location to store drugs for shipment to the United States; this makes Juarez home to many drug cartels. The intense competition for turf in Juarez undoubtedly played a key part in the violence last weekend.
www.nytime.com/2010/02/02/world/americas/02juarez.html
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Now a days everyone is a target. Even people who are minor suspects are ending up dead now. Juarez as a city on the border has seen a lot of violence. It is one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI think that we Americans don't realize how fortunate we are to live in such a secure place. There is a show on MTV about ridiculously spoiled rich kids who get expensive cars and have huge parties for their 16th birthday. Imagine if a party got "rolled" in a manner like this all the time, it would be so frightening for the citizens.
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