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Death squads act with impunity in Mexico

After the brutal massacre of 16 youngsters between the age of 15 and 20 last week in Ciudad Juarez, residents of the most heavily militarised city in Mexico are asking the authorities how this could happen. One distraught citizen said in a television interview “We don’t have anyone to defend us or look after us, we pay taxes for all the police and military to come to the city but they are only decoration.” As of march 2009 there were 7500 federal police and soldiers in Juarez, the city with the highest murder rate in the world.

Mass killings in Mexico

The violence and killing that has become for many part of daily life in Mexico has recently become even more intense. Despite the heavy military presence in many regions the drug cartels are still brazen enough to carry out mass killings in order to eliminate opponents in the escalating drug war. The latest incident occurred on Tuesday (15/09/09) when hooded gunmen again stormed into a rehabilitation clinic in Ciudad Juarez in the north of Mexico and killed ten of the patients inside.

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