Ciudad Juلrez, Mexico: The world's most dangerous place?

[Adara]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/812757--ciudad-juarez-mexico-the-world-s-most-dangerous-place?bn=1

A drug war has turned Ciudad Juلrez into a bloodbath. What’s worse, the addition of thousands of police and soldiers has only made the Mexican city more lawless

CIUDAD JUءREZ , MEXICO—The light is falling, the heat is letting up and gunmen have arrived at the modest house with the concrete front yard where there is a birthday party going on. With quiet efficiency they approach the painted wrought iron gates and begin spraying the adults with bullets. Three men crumple to the ground, dead. Two others succumb later in hospital.
The evening has begun with a massacre, but it’s still early.

Juarez, a city of 1.3 million hugging the border with El Paso, Tex., may now be the most dangerous place in the world — riskier even than Baghdad or Kandahar. This isn’t the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, or Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, pockets of danger in a larger whole. In Juلrez, it’s everywhere. Here, death is like a Whac-A-Mole game, constantly rearing its head.

 

[fatsausage]

I worked in NM about 30 miles from the border and one of our employees was kidnapped while I was there. (I was only there for a little while as a consultant) He didn't report it to the police because he said the police were in on the crime.

The whole area is a shit pit. I will say that the strip club I went to was pretty damn good though for being in the U.S. (Didn't have the balls to venture into Juلrez.) Hooters was pretty good... That was about all there was to do... other than get preteens pregnant. (The city I worked in has the highest rate in the US for preteen pregnancies )