Mexican police are staging one of their biggest operations in years to try “to prevent a collapse in law and order just south of the US border,” reports Reuters. Ciudad Juarez, a desert city just south of El Paso, Texas, has been the scene for several months of a bloody war between police and drug cartels working with corrupt police officers. The city is at the heart of a major drug trafficking route.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 4 March 2009 at 7:51 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 4 March 2009.
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Tags: Ciudad Juarez, drug war, drugs, El Paso, Mexico, police, trafficking
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