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  • Over 200,000 People Leave Mexican Border City Due to Violence

    09/26/2010 10:15:14 AM PDT · by AuntB · 56 replies · 1+ views
    Latin American Herald Tribune ^ | Sept. 26, 2010 | Latin American Herald Tribune
    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Some 230,000 people have left Ciudad Juarez, a border city that has become Mexico’s murder capital, in the past three years as the death toll from a gang war topped 7,000, a non-governmental organization said in a new report. About 124,000 people, or 53.9 percent of the total, have sought safe haven in El Paso, Texas, which is just across the border, the Ciudad Juarez Citizens Security and Coexistence Observatory said. The rest have returned to their hometowns, mainly in Durango, Coahuila and Veracruz states, to get away from the drug-related violence. “Action should be taken...