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Ciudad Juarez

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Ciudad Juárez 

a city in northern Mexico, in the state of Chihuahua. Situated on the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande), across the border from El Paso, Texas (USA), with which it is linked by bridge. Population, 475,000 (1973). Ciudad Juárez is a highway and railroad junction linking Mexican routes with the transportation network of the USA. It has enterprises of the food-processing, textile, and metalworking industries. There is also tourism, mainly from the USA. The city was founded in 1659.
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Martinez is the third professor at the Autonomous University to be killed this year, with a fourth from the Ciudad Juarez branch of the University of Chihuahua.
Bloody day for Mexico border city by Aljazeera.net
Local leaders in Ciudad Juarez have asked for UN peacekeepers to help stem the alarming bloodshed in their city that is chasing business across the border to Texas, their representatives have said.
Mexico leaders call for UN help in Ciudad Juarez by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Vicente Paul Bustamante's body was found Wednesday and identified early Thursday, an investigative official in the northern state of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez is located, told AFP.
Deputy US marshal shot dead in Mexico by AFP / AFP American Edition
 
 
 
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