Two police vehicles in Ciudad Juarez was ambushed at an intersection by unknown gunmen, according to local authorities. The incident resulted in the death of seven officers and a 17-year-old male passerby. According to Chihuahua state spokesman Enrique Torres Valadez, six of the officers were federal and the last was a female local police. Two [...]
Officials said that a US serviceman was among six victims of an early morning shooting at a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico strip club Wednesday. Chihuahua state attorney general’s office spokesman Arturo Sandoval said that just after midnight, unidentified gunmen entered the Amadeus club in the border city across from El Paso, Texas and fatally shot six [...]
The number of drug-related deaths for this year in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has already surpassed 2,000 homicides–almost 400 more murders than the total count for 2008, new figures released on Wednesday by Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz indicate. Reyes Ferriz said, “It has been 22 months of this war, and it hasn’t stopped. The violence has [...]
