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| More Than 100 Police Killed in 2010 in Ciudad Juarez | |
| 2011-01-03 | |
Of that total, most of the fatalities (67) were municipal police while the remainder were federal police, thousands of whom have been deployed to Juarez as part of President Felipe Calderon's nationwide crackdown on Mexico's numerous drug cartels. That strategy, which has included enlisting the military in the drug war, has led to the elimination of several crime bosses and record seizures of cocaine but appears to have had no impact on the flow of illegal drugs from Mexico to the United States. Drug-related deaths, meanwhile, have risen steadily since Calderon took office in late 2006. More than 3,100 people, or approximately nine per day, were killed in drug-related violence in 2010 in Juarez, with many of the deaths blamed on the war for control of smuggling routes into the United States between the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels. That figure represents about one-fourth of all deaths this year from gangland mayhem in Mexico, where more than 30,000 people have died over the past four years in cartels' battles for supremacy and clashes between the gangs and security forces. Also Friday, assailants used Molotov cocktails in a firebomb attack on an elementary school in a low-income area that caused significant damage but no casualties. As reported in Milenio and probably El Universal.Turns out it was vandalism by a few 12 to 14 year olds kids who were detained by the cops. No assailants, no firebombs. Just a buncha bored kids. And the vandalism took place in Chihuahua city, not Juarez. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |