Murder City_ Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields - Charles Bowden [121]
Last week, this border community witnessed a fearful wave of violence that has caused the authorities of the neighboring country to guard hundreds of children who cross to attend school and have been endangered by executions on busy streets in broad daylight.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 5, 2008
WOMEN EXCUSE AGGRESSIVE SPOUSES; PREFER ECONOMIC SUPPORT
Many women pardon the violence committed by their husbands and avoid pressing charges against them because they need their economic support. “It is common that they refuse to denounce them because if their husbands go to jail, they will have no resources to survive,” reported the Center for Prevention and Attention to Women and Children in Situations of Violence.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 6, 2008
Lieutenant Carlos Adrián de Anda Doncel appeared alive at 8:07 P.M. outside the San Lorenzo Bakery two days after he was abducted by an armed commando. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was reported in stable but delicate condition with wounds from beatings on various parts of his body as his abductors had tortured him to obtain information. He was reported to be hysterical. Gonzalo Díaz Rojero, director of the Municipal Transit Police, expressed gratitude to the kidnappers for freeing officer de Anda Doncel alive.
The officer had been abandoned with hands cuffed behind his back and his head covered by a hood at the entrance of the San Lorenzo Bakery. The bakery owner, Juán Rodriguez, said the man had asked for 3 favors: a glass of water, to call his wife and that he close the business so that his attackers would not return for him in the presence of his family and coworkers. Red Cross Ambulance 156 arrived and took him to the emergency room, under a heavy escort from fellow transit police.
Don Juán Rodriguez, the bakery owner, said that the man had been extremely terrified and after talking to his wife, he began to cry.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 6, 2008
Under heavy guard, Secretary of National Defense Guillermo Galván Galván made a stealth visit to Juárez yesterday for about 2 hours as part of a tour of the northern region of the country where a battle is under way against organized crime.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 6, 2008
According to statistics released by authorities, for every 5 victims of domestic violence, only one perpetrator receives therapy to prevent new attacks.
El Diario, Ciudad Chihuahua, March 8, 2008
A confrontation before dawn today in the Rosario neighborhood of Chihuahua City left 7 presumed narco-traffickers dead, 4 arrested, and 3 soldiers and one official of the Federal Police injured. The identities of the dead were not revealed by the military nor by the Federal Preventive Police.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 9, 2008
A man was found dead lying in a pool of blood in the northbound lane of
the Casas Grandes highway, and another was taken to the hospital after both were apparently shot.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 10, 2008
MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICERS HUNTED DOWN: 1 DEAD, 3 INJURED
Víctor Alejandro Gómez Márquez was killed; Mario Alberto Rodríguez Arámbula, Moises Casas Camargo and Commander Ismael Villegas Frausto were injured in an ambush in which 2 police patrol vehicles were chased, surrounded and then attacked by AK-47 rifle fire from gunmen in two other vehicles on Avenida Paseo de la Victoria. Villegas’s name appeared on the list of police officers to be executed posted on January 26.
The attack took place at 8:40 A.M. as commander Villegas