The stolen car conundrum
Car theft down in El Paso but 1,700 stolen cars found in Juárez
By Alejandro MartĂ*nez-Cabrera


Eli Camacho, a private investigator who specializes in repatriating stolen cars, has many stories of car thefts in Ciudad Juárez.

One goes like this: Last fall, a widowed woman drove to Juárez to identify the body of her husband, recently killed across the border. She hadn’t been there long before her car and her purse were stolen. Three weeks later, the car was found with a dead body in the trunk.

“Needless to say, she did not want the car anymore,â€