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By Julian Cardona
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed six U.S. citizens in separate attacks since Saturday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. consulate said on Thursday, as Mexico struggles to halt surging...
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By Julian Cardona
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico |
Thu Nov 4, 2010 7:30pm EDT
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed six U.S. citizens in separate attacks since Saturday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. consulate said on Thursday, as Mexico struggles to halt surging murders.
University of Texas students Manuel Acosta and Eder Diaz, who studied at the El Paso campus just across the border from Ciudad Juarez, became the latest victims when they were gunned down as they drove through the city on Tuesday.
The slayings followed the deaths of four Americans, including a woman who died of multiple gunshot wounds inside a tortilla shop on Saturday.
Two other U.S. citizens died on Saturday in a hail of gunshots aimed at their car.
"Police said shooters fired 50 rounds, ... peppering the black BMW with bullets," the consulate said in a statement.
On Sunday a U.S. citizen was killed along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house. It was not clear why the Americans were targeted.
Such killings are becoming more common even though most American tourists have stayed away from Ciudad Juarez since drug violence surged in January 2008. Since then, more than 7,000 people have died in and around this manufacturing city engulfed in criminal anarchy.
"A lot of the kids tell us that they don't go over (to Ciudad Juarez) anymore. But many folks along the border have families, grandmas," said Mary Ellen Hernandez, director of the Rio Grande Safe Communities Coalition, an El Paso-based nonprofit that promotes safety among college-age youths.
At least 37 U.S. citizens have died violently in Ciudad Juarez since January, compared to 39 in 2008 and 2009 combined, according to U.S. government data.
NO END TO MURDERS
Mexico President Felipe Calderon, who launched a war on drug cartels in late 2006, faces his toughest test in Ciudad Juarez, where 7,500 troops and elite police have failed to end beheadings and car bombings.
In one of the worst attacks against Americans, U.S. consular employee Lesley Enriquez and her husband were shot and killed in Ciudad Juarez as they left a children's party in March. U.S. President Barack Obama expressed outrage at the shooting.
October was the deadliest month in the city's history, with 350 people killed, including 14 people at a birthday party. The drug war death toll across Mexico now stands at more than 31,000 since December 2006.
A war over trafficking routes between local cartel boss Vicente Carrillo and Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who heads the Sinaloa cartel, has fueled hopelessness in Ciudad Juarez despite the government's efforts to rebuild schools and parks.
For lack of a better future, jobless youths join gangs and wade into countless battles over protection rackets, drug sales, smuggling and kidnapping.
(Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor in Phoenix; Writing by Robin Emmott; Editing by Xavier Briand)
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Nov 04, 2010 7:13pm EDT
Gee, I think I’ll go to CJ this weekend.
RMRCal
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Nov 04, 2010 7:43pm EDT
This is no longer a drug war, but civil was and unless America and other South American countries kick in with troops on the ground, it will spread out into those Countries. It is obvious the Mexican Government can’t control the situation and the if drug cartels hook up with the Taleban, we will have hell on earth.
burkes
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Nov 04, 2010 7:53pm EDT
This is no longer a drug war, but civil was and unless America and other South American countries kick in with troops on the ground, it will spread out into those Countries.
It is obvious the Mexican Government can’t control the situation and if the drug cartels hook up with the Taleban, we will have hell on earth.
It is only a question of time, before they start killing people in America.
This is a greater threat to us than the Taleban, because it is right across our border.
It is no wonder Mexicans are fleeing their Country.
Of course, this may be what they want, for America to divide their troops, so they can
conquer us.
burkes
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Nov 04, 2010 8:36pm EDT
What are these Americans doing in Ciudad Juarez in the first place? You’d think at least the college students would be smart enough to follow the news!
louonboard
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Nov 04, 2010 9:08pm EDT
It REMAINS a drug war. The cartels are DRUG Cartels, involved in the trafficking of DRUGS and are in the midst of a battle to control said trade for the vast sums of money at stake.
Prohibition in the US produced the same results, and no one thought that was a “civil war”.
As a foreign country, US troops have no jurisdiction or right to involve themselves in the situation without first being asked. Of course, that has rarely stopped the US before……
WmEHardy
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