Ciudad Juarez, Mexico is the highest Mexican city with more deaths and violence that is related to the Mexican drug cartels. It is known that this city is the heart of the county’s drug war. The Mexican authorities are fighting back against the drug cartels by deploying more troops to Ciudad Juarez Mexico according to the interior minister Fernando Gomez. By this decision the drug cartels have being highly active in making threats against the public officials for increasing the military and federal police in Ciudad Juarez. During Gomez Visit to Ciudad Juarez authorities received bomb threats and found traces of explosives. It is believed that the drug cartels were the ones who made the threats in order to stop Gomez decision.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/02/200922634626475631.html
Ciudad Juarez has become Mexico’s most violent city as the government increases the antidrug forces to take down the drug cartels and preventing the smuggling into the US. The Drug Cartels attack convoys that transport Mexican governors and police officers. The Mexican Drug cartels are fighting to win the control over the drug trafficking to the northern border which is El Paso Texas USA.
On Thursday September 3, 2009 Mexican federal forces attacked the Mexican drug cartels attacking 23 people, and killing 18 of them and 5 wounded. On the other hand, according to the AFP and abased on police data there has being 1,161 drug related murders in the first seven months of 2009 in Ciudad Juarez even with the thousands of police and soldiers that are maintaining security in Ciudad Juarez. Last year 2008 alone there was 9,600 drug related deaths even with the executive order of deploying 36,000 troops to Ciudad Juarez the violence does not have a limit. As for to date more soldiers and federal police have being deployed to Ciudad Juarez to try to decrease the violence.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/20099344337779607.html
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