Casey Garcia's stroller was pinned between a truck and a wall after a shootout between drug factions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The 1-year-old's father, Todd Turner, stands at her bedside at Thomason Hospital in El Paso.30 Dead In Worst Weekend Of Mexico Violence This Year
-- Breitbart
-- Breitbart
More than 30 people died in the worst weekend of violence this year in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, the scene of daily drug gang turf wars, police said Monday.
Heavily-armed assassins killed nine people in separate incidents late Sunday in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, local police said, following the slaying of 21 people the previous night -- including a baby and a four-year-old boy -- at a village dance in the town of Creel.
Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed 2,682 people since the start of the year -- nine more than in all of 2007 -- with nearly half in Chihuahua state, daily El Universal reported Saturday.
Ciudad Juarez -- across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, where local drug gangs are battling the powerful Sinaloa cartel -- has the highest murder toll, with some 800 so far this year, according to an AFP count.
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More News On Mexico's Drug Wars
Mexico drug war's costs, risks exported to U.S. -- L.A. Times
Hit men kill 13 at party in Mexico tourist town -- Reuters
Mexican gunmen kill drug patients -- BBC News
Weapons smuggled into Mexico fuel drug wars -- San Francisco Chronicle
Mexico Pays the Price of Prohibition -- Wall Street Journal
My Comment: The drug wars in Mexico will come to a screeching stop if the drug demand in North America was cut off. It is maybe time to now "fess-up" ... we in the U.S. have lost the drug wars and it is now the time to debate legalizing and regulating the trade.
I know that the legalization of drugs will open a Pandora's box of health problems that would make cigarette smoking puny in comparison, but nothing is solving the problem now, and people are still getting sick from addiction and drug dependence.
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