Thread: Effects of Mexico's drug war hit El Paso

Effects of Mexico's drug war hit El Paso

11:15 PM CST on Sunday, January 11, 2009
By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News


EL PASO — Touted as one of the safest cities of its size in the nation, El Paso is awakening to its southern neighbor’s bloody nightmare.


City officials say that drug-related violence across the border in Ciudad Juárez is having a growing impact in El Paso. And the situation across Mexico is deteriorating so fast that retired five-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey warned, in a new assessment, of a refugee catastrophe that could devastate border cities.


“Mexico is on the edge of abyss,â€

Some, like 35-year-old Gerardo Rocha, say they have said goodbye to Mexico for good. Standing outside a video store in El Paso’s west side and selling corn in paper cups with red chili, butter and lime, he said he said he sends money weekly to his 5-year-old son in Juárez.



Big man you are pal. Get your own scared ass out of Juarez and leave your baby behind Unless that money you're sending him is armored, your job is to protect him.....GO HOME!!!

Some family values.........