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"How to end the slaughter in Juarez?"

The title to this post is the headline to a troubling Houston Chonicle story about how resistant drug violence in Juarez has proven to military and police interference. It's also arguably a much more pressing foreign policy question for the United States than anything happening in Afghanistan. The article opens:Seemingly impervious to any treatment, murder has settled into the sinews of this border city like a pestilence. The thousands of federal soldiers and police injected into Ciudad Juarez haven't proved a cure. Neither have the remedies of sociologists, economists, criminologists or psychologists. Nor have the prayers, potions and petitions of its haggard citizens. Gunmen claim dozens, sometimes scores, of new souls each day, hundreds by the month...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).