Ciudad Juarez
El Paso Named Safest City in U.S., Just Across Border from Drug-Torn Ciudad Juarez
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Oh, the difference a border can make. While Ciudad Juarez in Mexico is tied up in a drug war that has claimed 10,000 lives in the past five years, its border town, El Paso in the U.S., was ranked the safest place in the country with a population over 500,000 for the…
Mexican Journalists Vow To Keep Reporting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The bad news is that members of the Mexican media are getting murdered, kidnapped and threatened by drug cartels. The good news is that the journalist have vowed to continue reporting on the drug war, according to the Washington Post. The Post reported that a young photo journalist from El Diario…
Mexican Drug Dealers Use Car Bomb For First Time
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com As if the drug war in Mexico wasn’t violent enough. Now, the drug dealers, for the first time, have resorted to a car bomb in Mexico in the drug war, the El Paso Times and the Associated Press reported. Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz of Ciudad Juarez said traffickers set a deadly…
FBI Says Ranking Mexican Gang Member No Easy Find
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI knows Mexican gang member Eduardo Ravelo — who may have had a hand in the recent murders of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Mexico — is no easy find. The Los Angeles Times reports that Ravelo — on the FBI’s Top Ten Fugitives — probably had…
Mexican Drug Traffickers Kill 10 Students on Way to Get Scholarships
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The ugly byproduct of Mexico’s drug war reared its head Sunday in the worst of ways: 10 students on their way to get government scholarships were murdered at a roadblock in the state of Durango apparently set up by drug traffickers, the Tribune Newspapers reported. Half the victims were…
Feds and Locals Rounded Up Gang Members to Try and Get Info on Mexican Consulate Murders
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. law enforcement started to flex its muscle Thursday in an attempt to find out who killed three people last Saturday who were tied to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The Associated Press reported that more 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers conducted a broad…
FBI Has Not Ruled Out Mistake in Identity of Murder Victims Tied to U.S. Consulate in Mexico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The FBI said Tuesday night that it had not ruled out the possibility that three people with ties to the U.S. consulate were murdered Saturday in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez as a result of a mistake in identity. But special agent Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman…
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