Friday, August 13, 2010

How One City Became The Most Dangerous In The World


The War for Drugs -- Sarah Hill, Boston Review

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

In April 2007 Ciudad Juárez—the sprawling Mexican border city girding El Paso, Texas—won a Foreign Direct Investment magazine award for “North American large cities of the future.” With an automotive workforce rivaling Detroit’s and hundreds of export-processing plants, businesses in Juárez employed 250,000 factory workers, and were responsible for nearly one-fifth of the value of U.S.-Mexican trade. The trans-border region of 2.4 million people had one of the hemisphere’s highest growth rates.

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My Comment: This is a must read on what drugs can do to a society .... and how quickly everything can unwind in just a few years.

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