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Published: 11/2/10

Record Number of Americans Killed in Mexican Border City

By  Theunis Bates - AOL News
Record Number of Americans Killed in Mexican Border City

(Nov. 2) -- Four U.S. citizens were murdered in separate attacks in Ciudad Juarez this weekend, pushing the number of Americans killed in the Mexican border city to a record high, according to U.S. officials. U.S. State Department officials told the El Paso Times that at least 35 Americans died of unnatural causes in Juarez from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, compared with 39 over the two previous years. Twenty of those deaths occurred in October, making it the deadliest month for Americans visiting or living in the city since 2008, when the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels started fighting over this key ...

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Published: 08/16/10

'Beauty Bloggers' and the Exploited Women of Juarez: An Outcry

By  Alison Fairbrother - Politics Daily
'Beauty Bloggers' and the Exploited Women of Juarez: An Outcry

"Mad Men's" Don Draper may have had hangovers and hotties at his '60s-era ad firm, but one headache he did not have was bloggers. Over the past few weeks, an army of beauty bloggers sunk their glossy nails into a collaboration between cosmetics giant MAC and fashion company Rodarte that made light of the perilous situation of women living in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (The business of promoting beauty products has changed profoundly since the days when real life Don Draper advertising executives convened focus groups to learn whether women used face cream to feel beautiful, or to catch a ...

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Published: 06/30/10

Cross-Border Gunshots Hit El Paso City Hall, Prompt Letter to President Obama

By  David Knowles - AOL News
Cross-Border Gunshots Hit El Paso City Hall, Prompt Letter to President Obama

After seven bullets believed to have been fired from the Mexican town of Juarez hit El Paso's City Hall on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wrote a letter to President Barack Obama demanding "action." No one in El Paso was hurt in the shootings, which Abbott blamed on Mexico's warring drug cartels. His letter was reprinted in the El Paso Times, and included the following passage: The time for talk has passed. The time for action is now. The need is urgent. Each day that passes increases the likelihood that an American life will be lost because of the federal government's failure ...

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Published: 06/30/10

Mexicans to Vote Amid Drug-Fueled Violence

By  Emily Schmall - AOL News
Mexicans to Vote Amid Drug-Fueled Violence

MEXICO CITY (June 30) -- As drug-trade violence mars the run-up to a brace of elections in Mexico, a troubling figure has resurfaced as the leading mayoral candidate in Mexico's murder capital. Hector "Teto" Murguia Lardizabal, 57, a former mayor of the violent border city Ciudad Juarez, left office in 2007 under a cloud of corruption suspicions, but he is the 2-1 favorite to win again in Sunday's elections, according to recent polls. His possible return is only one unsettling aspect of Sunday's elections, which will take place in 14 of Mexico's states, including four of the ...

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