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Article: El Paso: Living together.(El Paso and Juarez)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2008
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The climate is fantastic, and cross-border business is thriving. But the cartels are a big problem
IT WAS a quiet Friday night in El Paso for Sandra, a young student. Her friends had gone across the border to Ciudad Juarez for a film festival. She had been looking forward to it, but at the last minute felt "una semilla", a seed of doubt. Women have been getting murdered in Juarez for a long time--hundreds in the past 15 years, with many more missing, and the cases unsolved--but she always felt that you have to keep living your life. Of late, though, the violence has gone to another level. The weekend before, there were two dozen people killed in Juarez, ...
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