Posted on 02/01/2010 7:35:07 AM PST by CedarDave
Gunmen stormed a party packed with teenage revelers in Ciudad Juárez early Sunday, killing at least 13 people in the latest spasm of violence to slam the border city, authorities said.
Officials in the northern state of Chihuahua said high school students and others were at a private home celebrating a school soccer victory when armed men rolled up in seven vehicles and opened fire.
Eleven of the dead were under 20, officials said. At least 10 people were reported wounded.
The motive was not immediately clear. But gatherings in Ciudad Juárez and other Mexican cities have been attacked before as warring gangs pursue targets amid a nationwide drug war. ... a daily newspaper in Ciudad Juárez, reported on its Web site that one of the slain teens was a witness in a multiple homicide.
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Ciudad Juárez has been the most violent corner in Mexico during the past two years, with more than 3,700 people slain as two drug gangs have waged a ferocious battle for control of the important cross-border smuggling passage into nearby El Paso.
The killings have shown no signs of letting up in the new year. More than 175 people have been slain in the city already in 2010, according to unofficial tallies by Mexican media outlets. ...the murder rate soared during the second half of 2009, and the death toll of more than 2,000 topped that of a year earlier.
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The “War on Drugs(TM)” strikes again....
Ping! to the New Mexico list.
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And yet we hear every civilian death in Iraq but the MSM ignores our border.
Where’s that fence the critters of DC allocated funds for construction? Or does big sista Jan just want one big happy unwalled party with our southern cousins?
I’m just a few miles from where this happened.
Used to go to Juarez frequently...not any more.
I have a good customer in Juarez. I liked to fly to El Paso and drive over.
There was a seafood restaurant that we liked to visit. I’ve forgotten the name of the place...
Yep, we are up to our neck it Afghanistan, Haiti, Columbia, and soon Mexico will dissolve into anarchy. The burden of nation building all over the world is far too much for our military, diplomatic, and humanitarian aid resources to handle. Just a fact.
And that goes up a level of magnitude with the most imcompetent POTUS ever in charge.
Last night on the local (San Antonio) news they showed the house. It really was a bloodbath. I’ve never seen so much blood on walls & floors. Ciudad Juarez-the most dangerous city in the world.
From 1996 to 2007 I spent four weeks a year on business in El Paso. During that entire time I never had a reason to cross the border. These days visitors, especially young persons, are likely to get in trouble just for being there. And by trouble, I mean killed. Also, I presume Juárez is now off limits to soldiers at nearby Fort Bliss.
There were seven vehicles that arrived; probably black SUV's full of hitmen.
It's spilled over into the US in Phoenix and to some extent Albuquerque. I don't know how bad it is in El Paso.
Evil lives. Prayers for the innocents.
Times have changed...about 50 years ago, I remember my Mom driving me (age 12 or so) and another young brother to visit relatives in the Southeast.....she took us on a ‘side trip’ to Juarez to pick Dad up a couple of bottles of Kahlua.........on foot,over a border bridge, as I recall.
Was this reported on in your area? We haven’t heard anything yet and I’m sure there is more pressing news for the SRM to mention it...
Why in the world are Americans still going into Mexico?
“The war south of our border is every bit as real as that in the middle east. They just haven’t started blowing targets up with suicide bombers. Yet. “
More beheadings, kidnappings, murder of journalists in Mexico than anywhere in the world. Ciudad Jaurez is the deadliest city in the WORLD. Not my opinion, fact.
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Only in passing. Juarez is closer to California than it is to south Texas.
Ouch!!!
LOL
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