VIOLENCE IN CIUDAD JUAREZ MEXICO #2

Barack Obama has expressed outrage over the murder of two Americans and a Mexican linked to the US consulate in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. The State Department has allowed families of other consulate staff to leave. The attack on the U.S. couple began with a car chase and ended in front of the main border crossing into El Paso, an area heavily patrolled by soldiers, local newspaper El Diario reported. The couples baby girl survived the attack.The Mexican spouse was murdered in an upscale neighborhood of the city when gunmen boxed in his car with other vehicles and shot him, according to a local newspaper photographer who soon arrived at the scene. His wife, who was following in a second car, was unhurt, but their two children were wounded.Calderon was already scheduled to visit Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday, his third trip there in a month, as he scrambles to find a way to deal with a surge in killings that 8,000 troops and federal police on the ground have failed to curb.The drug war has killed more than 4,600 people in the key manufacturing city in two years, and constant scenes of bullet-ridden vehicles and bodies lying in pools of blood have prompted many middle-class residents to flee.Across Mexico, drug war violence is at its worst level ever, and many U.S. students have heeded warnings not to cross the border this year for their annual spring break vacation.A burst of drug gang clashes killed at least 27 peopleincluding four who were beheaded—this weekend in or near the Pacific resort of Acapulco, one of many popular with spring breakers.At least 13 were killed on Saturday and at least 14 on Sunday, police said, including nine men who were killed in a shootout and a young woman shot as she drove by in a taxi.Obama voiced his support for Calderons drug war during a visit to Mexico last year, but the rising violence along the border with Mexico has become a big concern for Washington.

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• VIOLENCE
• IN
• JUAREZ
• MURDERS
• KILLED
• MASSACRE
• SHOTS
• CARTELS
• DRUGS
• CHIHUAHUA
• MEIXCO
• PASO
• TEXAS
• VIOLENTO
• JUARITOS

[8ruins0gone5]

What America? All of North America or All of south America? Is it Canada? Or the United States? I hate how people call the U.S. America...

[pvsg1990]

@constantrvlr it is comvinient for the us that the drug problem in mexico continues. Drugs make billions of dollars, heck chapo gusman is one of the richest man in the world. Its all a dam business just like everithing. But unfortuently the mexicans are the ones which are getting affected the most.

[758davidherrera]

es muy claro que si no hay detenidos es por que el gobierno mexicano esta implicado vemos claramente un ejemplo de que es un pueblo sin ley donde las autoridades son los verdaderos delicuentes donde la policia son los rateros y violadores delas calles

[spechtbert]

@hdadaniel bomb more effective :DD

[hdadaniel]

@Robygol89 yeah right, I saw a lot of brutal scenes in Irak, Americans dont make a huge difference.... and you guys love drugs, thats what you deserve, a sick nation, with sick people (who thinks everything is ok) bastard...

[hdadaniel]

@vegasmusicfan it already started, not in the same way that mexico, but here in el paso there are a lot of cases

[hdadaniel]

@yaboyEJ78 they used to, but now Federal police is doing that job. US ARMY in Mexico will not help

[hdadaniel]

@spechtbert solution, educate stupid people like you

[spechtbert]

solution: drop bomb on juarez

[MRcalibrecincuenta]

@Nick718BkLyN This drug war is benefiting both Mexico AND the US. The drug cartels have American politicians in their pocket. How the fuck are KILOS able to be smuggled through the border EVERY day yet a cop can easily find a little 10 sac in your car? Drugs REEK, seeing a suspicious unlabeled semi-truck is an AUTOMATIC hint that drugs are being smuggled. They are also smuggled through planes, and look at the damn AIRPORT SECURITY, how are they not found?! Corruption!