Thread: Thousands protest violence in Mexico

May 11, 7:30 PM EDT

Thousands protest violence in Mexico

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Thousands of white-clad people marched silently Sunday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer was shot dead.

The crowd of several thousand students, church leaders, businessmen and politicians walked for about four miles (six kilometers) across Ciudad Juarez to a park near a border crossing, breaking the silence in a burst of speeches, dancing and singing.

More than 200 people have been killed so far this year in Ciudad Juarez. The city of 1.3 million across the border from El Paso, Texas, is home base for the powerful Juarez drug cartel.

The assassination of police director Juan Antonio Roman Garcia on Saturday came despite the deployment of more than 2,500 soldiers and federal police to the city and surrounding Chihuahua state in March.

"We need to unite against this," said Julian Ochoa, an architecture student at the march. "I hope we achieve something."

An increase in drug-related homicides, shootouts, kidnappings and car thefts near the border prompted U.S. State Department to warn Americans last month of rising violence in the region, though it stopped short of advising against travel here.

On Saturday, police arrested six suspected gang members after a gunfight in the northern state of Sinaloa. One of the six, Alfonso Gutierrez Loera, 25, identified himself as a cousin of suspected Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin Guzman, according the Public Safety Department. Gutierrez Loera and another suspect were wounded in the shootout.

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I fear this is coming to many U.S city's as i type. L.A itself is home to what , 30,000 Gang bangers. Thats an army that mayor has in his control. Bush and cabinet should be locked up , it's the Law !!

We have about 20 million more of them we can send to help protest........while we protest the violence brought here by them!!

It seems to me that is all you read about is these people killing each other, and they want to come here?
They remind me of nothing but, savages.
Looking to kill any one they can and get away with it. Kind of sicking aint it???

If our government continues to ignore our cries we will have this type of violence on a larger scale. It is a total disregard for human life.
I know they are not all bad people. But that does not excuse the fact that the majority of them are here illegally. Hence my reluctance to trust any of them.

THEY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO KEEP THIS FROM SPREADING INTO OUR COUNTRY. MEXICO IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL. THE CARTELS HAVE CONTROL OF IT. I KNOW IT HAS SPILLED OVER SOMEWHAT ALREADY. BUT IT COULD GET MUCH WORSE HERE THAN IT ALREADY IS.

Deadly Four Days in Mexico

Posted: May 11, 2008 09:38 PM PDT

Updated: May 12, 2008 04:13 AM PDT




Hundreds marched in Juarez, Sunday, protesting the recent deadly spree of violence that has plagued Mexico since Thursday.

The most recent murder claimed the lives of four in Palomas early Sunday morning. That same day, the body of a murdered man was found in the central part of Cuidad Juarez. His body found with a note that read, "for those who don't believe."

Saturday, the second in command for the Municipal Juarez police was found murdered. Juan Antonio Roman Garcia, 54, killed near his home after 60 rounds sprayed into his truck.

Around three Friday afternoon, three people were shot and killed execution style.

Thursday night six people were shot, three of them were Juarez police officers. The other three just bystanders; two of them were killed.

Juarez police are calling it the closes shooting to the border in recent history. So close, that a stray bullet punctured the toll booth Americans use to cross into Mexico.
The deadly spree has crossed the border into El Paso, as victims continue being brought into the city's hospitals.

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