Posts Tagged ‘Ciudad Juarez’
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November 21, 2009
Mexico’s top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
November 16, 2009
Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
November 12, 2009
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
September 21, 2009
Health authorities in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua shut down nine addiction-treatment centers in Ciudad Juarez in the wake of this week’s killing of 10 people at a rehab facility in the violent border city.
Ciudad Juarez has passed 1,700 murders this year, topping the number for last year with three months to go. Rather horrifically, of the 3,200 people killed in Juarez over the past two years, 500 of them have been drug addicts or those in addiction recovery programs.
September 17, 2009
Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the 2nd such mass killing this month.
June 25, 2009
Journalists reporting, and surviving, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
June 22, 2009
Mexico has deployed 1,500 more troops to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, where homicides related to the drug trade have surged in recent weeks.
March 18, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Thousands of Mexican soldiers took a tighter grip on policing in the violence-scarred border city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday and the retired general in charge of police emphasized the military dominance by announcing city officers will be stripped of their weapons while on patrol.
March 14, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico deployed 2,000 troops to this embattled northern border city Friday to reinforce a crackdown against drug gangs.
March 5, 2009
More than 1,500 Mexican soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year.
February 1, 2009
Juárez violence: U.S. assistance is considered, warring cartels may try for truce – The deadly street shootings, decapitations and other killings in Juárez are taking place at a higher pace than at the same time last year
December 12, 2008
A women’s rights activist who first drew attention to the slayings of young women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez was named the winner of Mexico’s National Human Rights Award on Thursday. – Esther Chavez
December 5, 2008
Schools become latest targets in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez
November 12, 2008
U.S. State Department officials unveiled a massive new consulate in Ciudad Juarez, a violent Mexican border town that is the world’s busiest for immigrant visas. The $66-million consulate building, under construction since early 2006, will open to the public in this city across the Rio Grande from El Paso.
October 16, 2008
Mexican officials are trying to persuade Americans to visit Ciudad Juarez, touting the city in a new billboard campaign as a “land of encounters.” But on the northern side of the border, that sounds like a cruel joke.
October 15, 2008
Discovery en Espanol Presents ‘Silencio en Juarez’ – A Stunning Visual Expose that Sheds Light on the Vile Murders and Disappearances of Thousands of Innocent Women in Ciudad Juarez
September 3, 2008
Development and the Desert: Border Land Struggle Turns Bloody in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
August 17, 2008
Mounting drug-related violence and 800 murders so far this year have driven some 3,000 families from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into the United States, a border expert said Friday.
August 6, 2008
More than 25 people were slain in the first few days of August in Juárez bringing the total to more than 700 this year — surpassing the total number of homicides in Mexico City and that of most major United States cities last year.
July 30, 2008
Blogante News Essentials for Wednesday – July 30th, 2008
U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
July 29, 2008
A small, colonial-era church in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has collapsed after its abode walls were soaked by rain from the remnants of Hurricane Dolly.
June 30, 2008
U.S. helps ransom Reyes’ kin
June 19, 2008
Gunmen kill official in Ciudad Juarez
May 13, 2008
Thousands protest violence in Mexico – Ciudad Juarez
Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Repression – IRC Americas Program
February 28, 2008
Nine bodies found in Mexican mass grave – Ciudad Juarez
January 30, 2008
Mexican rights official says Juarez killings (of women) continue
January 24, 2008
Juarez Shootings Resonate on Both Sides of the Border
December 6, 2007
Mexican City Exhumes Thousands of Bodies – Ciudad Juarez
November 28, 2007
Americans risky for Mexican hookers
November 26, 2007
Carlos Slim’s Border Water Project
September 30, 2007
Vast US military base near border relies on Mexican labor – Fort Bliss – El Paso, Texas
December 15, 2006
Body in Mexican park had U.S.agents business cards
December 7, 2006
Bishop Ricardo Ramirez Marks 25th Year in Las Cruces – New Mexico
November 14, 2006
Grim formula to Mexican murders – BBC on Ciudad Juarez
November 1, 2006
Wall will only “divide, alienate,’ Mexican Catholic bishop says, condemning border fence
October 30, 2006
Border Social Forum Converges in Ciudad Juarez
October 4, 2006
Life and death on the border
Day 7: El Paso and Ciudad Juarez – The people vs. Samaniego – Texas
August 25, 2006
Suspect in Mexican killings underscores revolving door at U.S.-Mexico border
August 8, 2006
Mexican state police commander executed in border city
June 15, 2006
Guatemala: Another Juarez, Mexico? » VivirLatino
June 14, 2006
On the border: The floating population
April 11, 2006
In Nearby Mexican Towns, Rallies Are Big News
Justice Sought in Mexican Femicide Cover-Ups
March 13, 2006
Mexican rock band ‘Jaguares’ supporting AI’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women
December 2, 2005
Report Compares Ease of Doing Business in 13 Mexican Cities
November 9, 2005
Another woman murdered in Mexican city on US border
November 3, 2005
Latina Lista: U.S. Resolution Passes Addressing the Murders of Juarez Women
October 5, 2005
Jennifer Lopez in Mexico to film movie about killings of women in border city
