Posted on 12/15/2010 11:36:34 AM PST by Abathar
(CNN) -- Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year -- 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.
With two weeks left in the year, 2010 is now the deadliest year Juarez has ever seen, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told CNN.
"At 12:15 p.m. we hit 3,000 murders for the year. The state attorney general's office had the number at 2,998 as of Monday and with the two murders today that brings us to 3,000," spokesman Arturo Sandoval said in a phone interview with CNN late Tuesday.
The killings happened in two separate incidents, according to Sandoval. One of the victims was found shot dead in a car and the other was shot and killed in front of relatives. The victims, 35 and 46 respectively, were both males, Sandoval said.
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Mexico is in freefall and when millions stream up here by the day to gain status as refugees, we’re going to pay the price. Thanks, 0bama for stopping funding on the border wall.
For a frame of reference, NYC, at six times larger, peaked at a murder rate of about 2400 per year... then dropped in 80%+
Oh, and, uh, not one of them were decapitated, right Sen. Reid?
And that’s just the ones they know about and can document.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Say thanks to the illegal drug users in America.
That kind of death toll deserves a web site, something called www.mexicanbodycount.com maybe.
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