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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