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Posted on 08/18/2008 6:36:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A massacre at a drug rehab center last week helped push the number of homicides in the Mexican border city of Juarez to more than 800 this year as rival drug gangs battle for turf.
On Wednesday a commando-style group fired a barrage of more than 60 rounds during a religious service at the drug rehab center, killing eight and wounding five. Five other people were killed elsewhere in the city on that day.
More than 100 people have been killed so far in August in the war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels, which broke out in January, the El Paso Times reports.
The homicide rate in Juarez, a city of nearly 2 million that is just across the border from El Paso, Tex., now stands at about 3.5 murders a day.
“If you wanted to see what terrorism is like, you are looking at it full-fledged over there,” El Paso police Chief Greg Allen told The Times.
“People are getting killed in broad daylight in front of everyone.”
Allen said the threat of drug violence spilling across the border into El Paso is slight. The city has had 12 homicides this year.
But the U.S. government is bringing Mexican casualties from the conflict to hospitals north of the border and paying for medical treatment. El Paso’s Thomason Hospital has treated 28 victims of the Mexican drug war this year, at a cost to taxpayers of about $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Yes, Americans can stop using illegal drugs, re “law of supply and demand” and “cause and effect”.
And the feds are quiet about it because they do not want to stir up Hispanic Nationalism in the USA , until after the election?
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No, they are planning on the North American Union and do not want to stir things up until that is complete. It is a done deal now.
I wonder if that is where Oblama gets his 57 states from. A Freudian slip?
Si, si!
Obama es una piquana Cucharacha!
( Gawd, did I say that?)
“But the U.S. government is bringing Mexican casualties from the conflict to hospitals north of the border and paying for medical treatment. El Paso’s Thomason Hospital has treated 28 victims of the Mexican drug war this year, at a cost to taxpayers of about $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.”
WHY? WHY, why, why?????
BTT!
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Yes he is but you forgot to use the male ending “o”. You said he is a small, female cockaroach. Maybe you did mean it!
Agreed. The War on Drugs has been a gigantic waste of resources that hasn’t cured our drug addiction but has filled our prisons to the brim and created violent drug gangs that have killed tens of thousands of Americans. We need to change our strategy.
and to think we drove into the town about 23 yrs ago with our kids and we went there just a few years ago on one of those bus tours.....we actually left the tour and walked to the grocery store to buy liquor by ourselves....
You couldn’t pay me to visit Ciudad Juarez. I’d rather walk naked in Philadelphia at 3 a.m. wearing a cheesehead.
Of course "Piqeno" can be slang for a man with a small dick.
I would suppose that fits Obama better.Even shorty Putin clearly has him out classed.
I am going to Mexico NOW and buying some cheap beachfront land.LOL.
I did a consulting contract in Juarez a few years ago. Glad I’m not there now.
Visited Juarez for about one hour last October. Fortunately nobody was getting murdered in our presence. Not a lot of friendly faces.
The main drag tourist section is not too bad. What I don't like about the shops is the necessity to haggle over just about everthing you buy. I like price tags.
I agree but it won’t happen.
Well, we know that won’t happen. Perhaps a wiser approach would be to end the failed War on Drugs, but that won’t happen, either.
I’m with you. Just tell me the price, don’t play with me!
The Chinese got rid of drug use by killing all of the drug dealers it found then anyone that used illegal drugs after that clean slate, now no problem. also now lots of organ donors.
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