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...Christine Murray Monterrey is definitely considered one of the biggest beneficiaries, but lots of cities in more . . . northern Mexico, like Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, are benefiting....
...Consider the “essential” workers required to travel and labour during the pandemic without appropriate protection, the residents of Gaza under rocket fire, the women of Ciudad Juárez killed in gang wars,...
...Pedro Chaviria, Index president in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, said workers had been paid in full for April, “but it’s simply not feasible next month — companies have lost liquidity”....
...Juárez in 2001....
...Usually, $154m worth of goods crosses through Ciudad Juárez every day, adding up to $56bn last year, he said. One company had to halt a production line because of the slowdown, he added....
...El Paso is a peaceful city compared with violence-torn Ciudad Juárez just across the border on the Mexican side, which was considered the murder capital of the world nearly a decade ago....
...(FT, BBC, Daily Mail, Times, Time) In the news US consul general in Hong Kong told to water down speech Kurt Tong, the outgoing US consul general in Hong Kong, was ordered to water down a valedictory speech...
...When the war on drugs, launched by former President Felipe Calderón, turned the border town of Ciudad Juárez into the murder capital of the world in 2010, “15 per cent of all homicides in Mexico happened...
...For the moment, Mexico City is unlikely to become a violent outlier as Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey or Acapulco have been over parts of the past decade....
...The Sinaloa Cartel boss had been fighting extradition by filing a battery of injunctions and claiming he had been mistreated in the jail in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with Texas, where he has spent the...
...The Sinaloa Cartel boss had been fighting extradition by filing a battery of injunctions and claiming he had been mistreated in the jail in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with Texas where he has spent the...
...You just need to get through the budget unscarred and without a massive U-turn. And that would be relative to recent history of success....
...Juárez, once known as the “city of death”....
...Yet Mr Calderón took the flak first hand in 2010, facing irate mothers in Ciudad Juárez after the massacre of 15 at a teenagers’ party when the border town was bathed in such bloodshed it was dubbed the...
...Ciudad Juárez became known as the “City of Death” a few years ago because of drug gang-related violence....
...By the time of his appointment as war secretary, Kitchener had already served as consul-general in Egypt and commanded the army in India....
...Two years ago, when armed gunmen opened fire on a party of teenagers in a poor neighbourhood of Ciudad Juárez, the city on Mexico’s northern frontier reached its lowest point....
...Contrast that with the message of U Ye Myint Aung, former Myanmar consul-general in Hong Kong, who in 2009 contrasted the Rohingyas’ “dark brown” complexion with the “fair and soft” skin of the Burmese....
...From the manufacturing hub of Ciudad Juárez on the Texan border to Querétaro in central Mexico, international companies say that they have trouble finding local suppliers for parts and packaging....
...In Ciudad Júarez, which borders El Paso, Texas, things were so bad last year that the local El Diario newspaper published an editorial asking the drugs gangs for advice....
...Some estimates put the Caracas homicide rate at as high as 118 per 100,000, with experts saying that parts of the city are worse even than Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez....
...But Victor Manuel Treviño Escudero, Mexico’s consul general in Phoenix, believes that the legislative response has resulted in “harassment” of the Hispanic community....
...Yet he also says that, little by little, tourists are learning that Mexico is a big country and that Ciudad Juarez, for example, is a long way from Yucatán....
...In February, the 47-year-old leader visited Ciudad Juarez, the dusty and sprawling industrial city of 1.3m on the northern border with the US that has become a focus of the drugs war....
...In spite of the relative calm in Ciudad Juárez, many people say it is only a matter of time before the cartels return....
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