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    13 youths killed, 20 wounded in massacre at Juarez party

    Mexican prosecutors say at least 12 youths killed, 18 wounded in massacre at Juarez party

    By Associated Press
    October 23, 2010|9:01 a.m.

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent city bordering Texas.

    Gunmen in three cars drove up to the home around 11 p.m. Friday and began shooting, Chihuahua state prosecutors spokesman Fidel Banuelos said Saturday.

    The dead were aged 14 to 20, Banuelos said, and a 9-year-old child was also gravely wounded.

    Police found 70 bullet casings from assault weapons typically used by drug gangs.

    The attackers escaped, and there have been no arrests.

    Last Sunday, gunmen stormed two homes in Ciudad Juarez, killing seven at a party and two more in another house nearby. Police have not named any suspects or given a possible motive.

    Friday night's killings took place near the working class neighborhood that was the site of another house party massacre nine months ago, in which 15 people were slain, most of them teenagers.

    The January massacre sparked outrage in the city, especially after officials called it a fight between rival gangs when most of the victims were students, some student athletes.

    President Felipe Calderon's government vowed to implement a new plan to improve law enforcement in Ciudad Juarez and address the social ills feeding organized crime after the January attack.

    The city across from El Paso, has become one of the world's deadliest amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels. More than 2,000 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez this year.

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    Why are these kids still having or going to house parties ? The message is crystal clear here and has been for awhile , if you have a house party expect to be killed. The parents of those teenagers and young adults should be ashamed of themselves. o

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    This is barbaric and I don't want any more of it on the streets here.

    I have a hard time believing that that no supects have been found and I am having serious doubts as to the sincerity of the Mexican Government's ability to control this violence.

    My heart goes out to those kids and their families.
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    Mexico: 13 dead in massacre at house party in Juárez
    By OLIVIA TORRES / Associated Press Writer
    Posted: 10/23/2010 02:05:09 PM MDT


    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen stormed two homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new government strategy seeks to restore order with social programs and massive police deployments.

    Attackers in two vehicles pulled up to the houses in a lower-middle-class Ciudad Juarez neighborhood late Friday and opened fire on about four dozen partygoers gathered to celebrate a teenager's birthday.

    The dead identified so far were 13 to 32 years old, including six women and girls, Chihuahua state Attorney General Carlos Salas told reporters at a news conference at the crime scene.

    The majority of the victims were teenagers or people in their early 20s.

    Salas said a total of 20 people were wounded, including a 9-year-old boy. Authorities earlier gave lower numbers for the wounded because some victims were taken by relatives to hospitals throughout the city and were not immediately located.

    Police found 70 bullet casings from assault weapons typically used by drug gangs whose bloody turf battles have killed more than 2,000 people this year in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.

    But Salas said the attackers escaped, and police said had no immediate information on any suspects or possible motive.

    The Interior Department condemned the killings in a statement and pledged "to help the efforts of state and local authorities re-establish order in Ciudad Juarez."

    Residents of Ciudad Juarez, one of the world's deadliest cities, no longer go out much to celebrate because of a violent turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels, who frequently attacks their rivals in bars, restaurants, drug rehab centers and other public places.

    But increasingly, even private parties at homes have been attacked, with several such shootings in recent weeks. Salas expressed outrage at the situation.

    "The criminals do not respect families or their homes," Salas said. "How can they wound young women, how can they severely wound a 9-year-old boy, how is it possible that a group of youths gathering to hold a birthday party wind up like this?"

    Some attacks have resulted in apparently innocent people being killed, either because someone else at a gathering was the target or gunmen simply had the wrong address.

    Most recently, attackers stormed two homes on Oct. 17, killing seven at a party and two more in another house nearby.

    And in January, gunmen massacred 15 people at a party in a house not far from the site of Friday's killings. Most of the victims were teenagers, students and athletes.

    Investigators later said the attack was apparently carried out by Juarez cartel gunmen looking to kill allies of the Sinaloa cartel. There is no evidence the youths were the targets, and police said the killers may have hit the wrong house.

    The city was outraged by the January massacre, leading President Felipe Calderon's government to vow to implement a new strategy for restoring order in Ciudad Juarez, where the army had by then had replaced the disorganized, outgunned local police.

    In April, federal police took over public security duties from the army, and about 5,000 federal officers were deployed in Ciudad Juarez.

    The federal government also stepped up social programs to try to break the cycle of poverty, broken homes and lack of opportunities that make the city's youths a fertile recruiting ground for the gangs.

    Cash aid programs, neighborhood improvement initiatives, educational and job-training programs were part of the new strategy, together with ubiquitous convoys of blue federal police trucks patrolling "safe corridors" throughout the city.

    But in light of the recent mass attacks, it is unclear whether the new strategy for the city is having an effect so far. While the bustling industrial hub was known mainly throughout the 1990s for the grisly series of murders of more than 100 young women, the city's youths now bear the brunt of the violence.

    In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this month, President Felipe Calderon said the Juarez strategy is a long-term policy.

    "We cannot think that all the ground lost regarding opportunities for these young people can be recovered in a few weeks," Calderon said. "If we are building five new high schools and two universities, don't tell me it's not working if classes started a month ago."

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    Our country is at war against terror, this really sounds pretty terrifying to me.
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    2 dead in Juárez may be massacre gunmen, official says
    By OLIVIA TORRES / Associated Press Writer
    Posted: 10/26/2010 03:19:39 PM MDT


    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - The bodies of two men, one of them decapitated, were found in a Mexican border city Tuesday, and police suspect they may have been behind the massacre of 14 young people at a birthday party.

    The bodies were found inside an SUV in Ciudad Juarez, said prosecutor Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas. One of them had been decapitated, and his head was left in the car. Both bodies had their hands and feet bound and bore signs of torture.

    A sign left with the bodies accused them of killing women and children.

    Gonzalez said the message raised the possibility that the two men were involved in the attack on the party Friday night.

    Gunmen pulled up to two homes next door to each other in a lower-middle-class Ciudad Juarez neighborhood and opened fire on about four dozen partygoers gathered for a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.

    The dead were 13 to 32 years old, including six women and girls.

    Gonzalez said the survivors would be shown photographs of the faces of the two men found dead Tuesday. The two men appeared to be in their early 20s, which coincides with accounts from some of the survivors, he said.

    One survivor has said that a gunman who appeared to be about 20 opened fire on the crowd after nobody would answer questions about a car parked outside the houses.

    More than 6,500 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, since a turf war erupted two years ago between the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels.

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    has become the deadliest city in Mexico, where nationwide, more than 28,000 people have died in drug-gang violence since President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of troops and federal police in late 2006 to step up the assault on cartels.

    In northeastern Mexico, meanwhile, the entire police force of the small town of Los Ramones quit Tuesday, a day after gunmen attacked their headquarters.

    Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas told Reforma newspaper that the station and some patrol cars were riddled with bullets but nobody was injured.

    He said 14 members of the police force told him they quit Tuesday morning.

    Nobody answered the phones at Salinas's offices.

    Los Ramones is in Nuevo Leon, a state torn by fighting between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs. Police stations in small northeastern Mexican towns are frequently attacked, and several mayors have been assassinated.

    Mexico's ill-equipped municipal forces often quit after cartel attacks.

    Calderon has proposed eliminating all of Mexico's municipal police forces and replacing them with one force per state.

    http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_16438592?source=pkg

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