CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Police say 20 people have been killed in less than three days in this crime-ridden border city’s latest wave of violence. State police spokesman Cesar Ramirez says a father and son who were killed at their home while sleeping were among the victims. A third victim was a man whose body was cut up in pieces and dumped in an empty lot. Ramirez says that this year alone more than 500 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. The city is home to the powerful Juarez drug cartel and has been among the hardest-hit cities in an explosion of violence across Mexico.
A woman who reportedly is a relative of Congressman Silvestre Reyes was kidnapped in Juárez, then released with the help of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Reyes, D-Texas, declined to comment. The kidnapping was first reported on the Narcosphere Web site, which attributed the report and knowledge of the victim’s relationship to Reyes to a DEA official in El Paso. Though the Web site reported the kidnapped person was Reyes’ sister-in-law, another federal agency and other officials are saying that some of the facts in the online report might be wrong, including the connection to Reyes. ICE released only the following statement: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with several other federal law enforcement agencies, recently worked cooperatively to assist Mexican law enforcement authorities to help secure the release of a victim who was kidnapped in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
“Although the victim was returned to her family, this investigation is ongoing. Therefore, no further information is releasable at this time,” the statement read.
No room for off the cuff comments/smugness here. Too scary. Too close.
#1
Agreed, the only ones to blame for all that violence is the rising demand coming from the USA and Canada.
#2
Agreed, the only ones to blame for all that violence is the American Legal System captured by the religious moralists who keep drugs illegal.
How many times do we need to hit our head with that brick??–aka Prohibition?
The real evil caused by drug abuse is nothing compared to what we have experienced for the last 40 years.
Can anybody buy a clue?
#3. bobbo- Keeping drugs illegal…Is this about religion or is it about control and profit. Doesn’t the govt. profits from wars, drug or otherwise?
McCullough==of course its both and other things too.
Religion gets a double credit though. The people who make money off of it can’t say “Lets keep it illegal so I can make money.” Instead those people say “lets keep it illegal to protect people from theselves and it is immoral and leads to disease.”
I said this before, but since you might appreciate it, the best reason to legalize drugs IS because it is the moral thing to do. Sartian Existentialism==making real choices that have consequence.
I have no doubt with legalization that drug use would spike up in the short term. But drugs would create a legal economy to provide expanded medical care, contaminated drug problems prevented, and mainly==mostly only people CHOOSING to use drugs would suffer the negative consequences. Today, people who want nothing to do with drugs can have their lives drastically affected by the criminality that surrounds prohibition.
In very simple terms, its just not right. Legalize it, Regulate It, Tax It. States should at least have the right to experiment with drug laws without the Feds Overruling them. I also note Billions going to Mexico and South America to “fight drugs.” Haw!
#6. Can’t add anything more, as long as we’re on the same page. We should start seeing the death count from this war on the Nightly News….like that will ever happen.
Well, it’s not the first time my city makes the news.
This time it’s actually quite true (unlike the whole women murders media exaggeration). A lot of places are being burnt, owners of small business are being threatened and people are being killed.
The thing is, they’re mostly cartel related people. The only ones who have killed civils is the army. They’re here to “protect us” but they’re actually making it worse.
They’re on their humvees and pointing guns at everyone. If you’re in a red light with some military vehicle next to you, you’ll be pointed at. They’re beating people, they’re extorting people. Stupid military.
I hope the Open Border zealots read this and understand how crazy their position is.
actually, an open border would stop this violence. This only happens because it’s a border town and it’s the port of entry and two cartels + the army (backing one of them) are fighting for this territory (kinda like real life risk)