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U.S./Mexico Border Wall as Architecture (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Borderless Border: Removing the US-Mexico boundary fence by reclaiming the Rio Grande is a project by landscape architect Pierre Bélanger . Evidence of informal crossing along the border zone. Th is is the b order in the desert, west of El Paso ru nning for 600 miles in the desert. In 1994, the U.S. G o vernment p lanned a meter high steel fence along a 1.5 mile section of the US–Mexico...
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The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Although the recent influx of drug violence in Mexico has put focus on urban cities like Ciudad Juarez, many rural communities have felt the same wrath. According to retired Mennonite rancher, Abraham Peters,"they have murdered Mennonite people… the drug-traffickers." Mr Peters' Mennonite community is one of many caught in the crossfire as the Mexican government takes initiative on...
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World (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In Ciudad Juarez a group of Mexican business leaders have proposed requesting UN peace keepers to quell the growing violence. The sister city to El Paso, TX is experiencing levels of violence that the Mexican army can barely control. About 2000 people have been murdered so far this year.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The bodies of four alleged gangsters, stuffed into a parked car near President Felipe Calderon's compound in this capital city, carried a message of divine retribution: “The wicked are denied their light, and the upraised arm is broken,” proclaimed the biblical passage, Job 38:15. Scrawled with a marker on the backs of three of the bodies, a single word — “Kidnapper.”...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A 7-year-old boy from El Paso, Texas, was gunned down across the border in the violent city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told CNN Tuesday.
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Dispatches from Zembla (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
[But] what are good times? Sergio Gonzalez asked himself. Maybe they're what separate certain people from the rest of us, who live in a state of perpetual sadness. The will to live, the will to fight, as his father used to say, but fight what? The inevitable? Fight who? And what for? More time, certain knowledge, the glimpse of something essential? As if there were something essential on this whole...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A BBC team witnessed Ciudad Juarez's violent problems at first hand on a patrol with local police, as Ian Sherwood reports.
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The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
* Puerto Rico: The U.S. government reversed a decision made in 2003 and concluded that military exercises on the island of Vieques may have posed health risks to residents . * Mexico: Days after business groups in Ciudad Juarez were reported to seek help from the U.N. at least fifteen people were murdered in that city on Saturday alone . * Panama: Construction on the third set of locks for the Panama...
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Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
[HT: SM ] Subject: txt immig owg - MEXICO CITY – Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Groups representing maquiladora assembly plants, retailers and other businesses said they will submit a request to...
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The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
At least 15 people have been killed in a single day of violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city bordering the United Sates, the Mexican authorities have said. A child, three women and a university professor were among the dead, according to officials on Saturday. Arturo Sandoval, the state prosecutor's spokesman, said a seven-year-old boy was travelling with his father in a truck when armed men opened...
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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Groups representing maquiladora assembly plants, retailers and other businesses said they will submit a request to the Mexican government and the Inter American Human Rights...
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