'No safe place' in Juarez

[steven johnson]

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is considered the country's most dangerous city. About 2,000 people were killed here in the past 14 months in drug-related violence. Across the country some 6,000 have been killed - the majority either members of the drug cartels, or of the security forces.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7959247.stm

Ciudad Juarez on the US-Mexico border has been the centre of a vicious inter-gang drug war that has seen more than 1,000 drug-related deaths so far this year.

Pastor Manuel Estebane, a US citizen with Mexican origins, went to Juarez three years ago as the church there needed a pastor. He describes what life is like in Mexico's most violent city.

"On the surface everything seems normal. People go to work or school and follow their daily routines because that's what life is about. We have to keep on living.
But there is one thing on people's minds - how many people were killed the previous day and how many might be killed today.

There is a great deal of fear because the violence could be triggered anywhere - in restaurants, shopping centres, even in churches. Nowhere is safe. The doctors are fearful when injured people arrive because the drug lords could go into the hospital and start shooting in a non-discriminating manner just to 'finish the job'."



'No safe place' in Juarez

[Horse with no Name]

1. It's horrible out there.

We even re-routed our annual trip so we didn't have to go through there because of the travel advisories.

[tabasco]

2. To think I used to go beer drinking there.

Maybe that stuff was going on then too, I dunno.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. it's bad in Tijuana also

[Swamp Rat]

5. Me too... great childhood memories in Juarez

¡Que lástima! :cry:

[Hugabear]

3. Ain't the war on drugs just grand?

Yep, the war on drugs has made the world a much safer place. :sarcasm:

[tomm2thumbs]

6. see, drugs CAN kill you - well, drug lords that is

time for a realistic solution -