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Exodus of thousands from Mexicos Dangerous City Juarez

Posted By angel_1303 on Dec 31, 2010   FROM: msnbc.msn.com report abuse

Thousands of residents of Mexico’s Dangerous City Juarez are going to another place due to fear of crime. Over 200000 residents have left Juarez to find the better lives for their families when murders and violence escalated over the drug business. Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in the US country known as the ‘murder capital’.

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The Mexican city, Juarez is situated in the north of the Central American country. Previously it estimated 1.5 millions populations but has been trapped in the crossfire of a deadly drug war. Massacres, beheadings, YouTube videos featuring cartel torture sessions and car bombs are most common crime of the Juarez, which killed over 3000 people in 2010. Residents of Juarez are exodus with taking off window panes, pipes, and light fixtures. The national government has sent Mexican army and federal authorities to do door-to-door survey to get the exact figure of how many residents have fled.

Juarez became a dangerous after 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. At that time, Thousands of new people groups established in this location for jobs. After that many women started working in factories but hundred of these factory women worker have killed and more than 3000 have gone missing in Juarez.

Long controlled by the Juarez Cartel, the City is move down into horrible series of violence after Mexico's one of the most wanted men, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and his Sinaloa Drug Cartel aspired to kill their way to power here beginning in 2008. After then, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced the war against drug lords in the country. 

According to the Juarez Chamber of Commerce President Daniel Murguia, “around 6,000 businesses closed due to violence this year”.

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