Former border town residents watch it explode into ‘war zone’
Rockford resident Norma Trosper says Ciudad Juárez a scary place to visit.
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By Betsy López Fritscher
RRSTAR.COM
Posted Apr 19, 2008 @ 09:47 PM

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ROCKFORD — Norma Trosper doesn’t remember growing up with machine guns, burgeoning gangs or drug wars sprawling through the streets of her native town, Ciudad Juárez.

That was then, in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

Today, it’s a different story in the Mexican border town.

“It’s like a war zone,â€