Posts Tagged ‘ciudad-juarez’

Juarez Video Game Offends Mexicans

Monday, February 21st, 2011

This ought to ensure excellent sales: Legislators in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, whose capital is Ciudad Juarez, have asked the Mexican government to ban the upcoming video game Call of Juarez: The Cartel, a shooter set amidst the drug violence of…

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53 killed in 72 hours in Juarez

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Fifty-three people were killed in a 72-hour span in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, making it one of the deadliest three-day periods in recent memory, state attorney general’s office spokesman Arturo Sandoval told CNN Sunday.

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Mexico police: 7 slain at soccer game

Monday, January 24th, 2011

A group of heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal police spokesman.

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Mexican activist Chavez murdered

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Susana Chavez, a woman activist who highlighted the killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez in the 1990s, is found murdered in the border city.

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Ciudad Juarez death toll at 3,000

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

This year’s death toll from drug-related violence in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez reaches 3,000 – 10 times the figure recorded in 2007.

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Ciudad Juarez death toll at 3,000

Juarez counts 3,000th homicide of 2010

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year — 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.

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Man blamed for 80% of Juarez killings

Monday, November 29th, 2010

An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months, was arrested over the weekend, officials said.

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Arrest made in Juarez consulate killings

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Mexican federal police have arrested a man who authorities say could have been involved in the March shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the country’s public safety ministry said.

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18 people killed in Ciudad Juarez

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Eighteen people were killed in separate shootings throughout Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, marking it as one of the bloodiest days this year in the nation’s most violent city, officials said Sunday.

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3 Americans killed near Mexico border

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Three Americans died in weekend violence in the area of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official said.

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4 U.S. Citizens Killed in Separate Attacks in Mexico

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.

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4 U.S. Citizens Killed in Separate Attacks in Mexico

Mexico gunmen ‘kill 12 at party’

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

At least 12 young people have been shot dead at a house party in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, officials say.

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Gun Battles Erupt Along U.S.-Mexican Border

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Battles in Ciudad Juarez and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico have prompted factories to close down, parents to pull children out of schools, and left a member of the Texas National Guard dead. The two cities across the border from Texas have been increasingly…

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Mexico paper seeks cartel clarity

Monday, September 20th, 2010

A newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, asks drug cartels for guidance on what to publish, in the wake of the killing a 21-year-old photographer.

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Newspaper to cartels: ‘We do not want more deaths’

Monday, September 20th, 2010

No newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has ever published an editorial directly addressed to the cartels battling for the trafficking corridor in the city. Until now. The editorial is a plea.

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Newspaper to cartels: ‘We do not want more deaths’