Fault Lines - Mexico: Impunity and profits

Once known as a booming industrial city and a model of economic progress in Mexico, the border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world.

More than 8,000 people have been killed there since 2008, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent in the army to carry out his offensive against the drug cartels.

The official story is that the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels are fighting for the city and the access it provides to the multi-billion dollar US drug market only a few hundred metres away.

On this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing travels to Ciudad Juarez, and asks how human life there came to be worth so much less than the drugs being trafficked through.

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• Category

  • Documentary
  • News

• Starring:

  • Sebastian Walker
  • Zeina Awad
  • Josh Rushing
  • Anjali Kamat

• Produced by:

  • Mat Skene
  • Jeremy Young
  • Andréa Schmidt
  • Elizabeth Gorman
  • Laila Alarian
  • Sweta Vohra
  • Anjali Kamat

[A Sisium]

This is capitalism at its best... Americans making huge profits out of the NAFTA while poor people work 12 hours a day for 50 dollars a week. Way to go capitalism...

[ANTPHRESSH89]

well know this no one is gonna sit there and be a slave they are gonna make money by any means nesscessary

[MrAbdisatar]

Dumbass police and politicians. You ain't going to solve nothing!!! Are fucking joking? You have the richest country north of the river, and you have the poorest country south of the river!!! Without attention to the abysmal and bone-crushing poverty in Mexico and the ever-growing gap between the rich and poor in both Mexico and the U.S, this problem will never go away. IT IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM; IT IS A SOCIECONOMIC PROBLEM!!!

[MrAbdisatar]

Money, money, money, money!! Some people got have!!!! You can't stop this; you can't touch this. Things shall get really bad- this just a tantalizing taste, baby!!!!!!!!

[Twat3rmel0n]

Everyone wants their cheap electronics and clothes, but nobody ever thinks about who suffers for the lower price on these goods. Greed on our side has led to poverty for these workers.

[Ryan Morris]

To be dissatisfied with capitalism does not make you a Communist dictator.

[Ryan Morris]

Too true. my stepdad was a child crimes investigator in Oakland. Always had to keep an eye on the cars driving by the house.

[LOSLOKAJO]

an investigator that takes his job siriously, dies

[jhonny appleseed]

All the comments made me laugh are you guys history.teachers? XD

[Pippen Sands]

The president of Mexico is GUILTY as hell of all the murders taking place there ...and Istrongly believe, as usual, the EVIL AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, is behind the blood ....no question about ..ONE ONLY HAS TO LOOK AT ALL THE LIES ANDTHEIR "COINTEL-PRO' EVILNESS

[xTallTaiLz]

@A Sisium ok stalin, go kill 20 million of your people and have them live a shitty life

[Ben Yoshida]

Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership - TPP.