Posted on 10/14/2009 4:49:40 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
"Deadliest city in the world"
JUAREZ, Mexico -- The drug violence in Juarez, Mexico, just across the Texas border, is growing worse.
So far this month, nearly 100 people have been killed. The city now holds the infamous title of "deadliest city in the world." Eyewitness News Anchor Art Rascon traveled to Juarez and he has a closer look at the violence in the region.
The world sees Juarez as repeated scenes of bloodshed where drug cartels rule.
On any given night, as we drive the back streets of Juarez, they are eerily empty. The main streets are filled with Mexican troops. Eight thousand troops have flooded the city, but it's hardly helped.
And the people? For good reason they're afraid to talk.
"It's a big problem. It's scary. I'm sorry, I cannot speak more," said one passerby.
The killing fields of Mexico and the epicenter is in Juarez, where the numbers are absolutely shocking. More than 1,800 people have been killed from drug cartel violence this year. That's more than 200 people a month.
There is no mercy in this war. Victims have been found hanging from bridges, tied on fences, gunned down in vehicles, homes and businesses.
While many of the dead are innocent bystanders, most work with one of two cartels at war with each other: the Juarez Cartel and the El Chapo Guzman Cartel.
Daily headlines blare more assassinations. Even Mexican journalists don't like reporting this slaughter. When we asked one journalist how he covers a battle like this without becoming a victim of it, he replied, "It's very hard. You just try to keep away from taking one side."
Journalists don't want to be identified and don't investigate the cartel. Too many have been killed.
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200 people killed a month. In one town or district. Now let’s quit talking about Chicago, what’s this Mexican news you’ve posted?
Ping!
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I thought Chicago was the worst city in the world. They wants to be number one.
If Bush were still President, this is the city he would have campaigned for for the 2016 Olympics.
Just #1 in the US.
I bet it’s having a hell of an impact on the red light district.
No Mexico has applied to have the 2020 Olympics in Phoenix.
They figure Arizona will be a Mexican province by then?
Coming soon to a city near you.
There was a fire fight near Reynosa’s infamous Zona de Tolerancia aka “Boys Town” last month.
Bush Defender Syndrome? Nah. That’s you, not me.
Bush paved the way for McCain.
McCain spread flowers at the feet of the Messiah.
I like to look back at the source of our troubles. It’s just the kind of guy I am. Sorry if that makes you nervous.
Bush->McCain->Obama
It couldn’t be any clearer. That’s what happened.
samtheman->BDS->nuts
Couldn’t be clearer.
It’s hard to believe that there was a time when I was a young El Pasoan, and had so much fun in Juarez. There’s a darkness coming over this whole damned world.
When I was a kid and we lived in Alamogordo, we’d always take visiting guests to Juarez to the market. We’d park near the bridge and walk across, then take a taxi. Really hard to believe it’s the same place.
McCain didn't need anyone paving the way for him, he has always wanted to be President and he will try as many times as he can. We would have had McCain eight years earlier if Bush hadn't beat him.
Bush tried several times to put troops on the border to stop the border crossing, but Democratic lawyers shot it down every time by using the Posse Comitatus laws. I was in Ft Hood and Ft Huachuca where troops had been sent to be posted and then were not used because of these lawsuits.
Makes me wonder if this is the Holy Spirit is vacating the Earth.
I have had fleeting thoughts in the past about how dark human nature has become.
Now it is just common place to hear people share this opinion about how dark/evil man has become in his everyday living.
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