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...activist Jorge Hernandez, who has demonstrated against the military in Mexico's murder capital Ciudad Juarez, argues that the protests are a legitimate display of anger against the troops. "Soldiers are kidnapping people and robbing houses," claims Hernandez, a member of a leftist group called the National Front Against Repression. "There are people who have been taken away by the military and not seen for months. Complaints to the authorities go nowhere. So now their family members are taking to the streets." Hernandez says the protests have been staged by various social groups and community organizations that are voluntary...
...women, promoting the word recycler instead of more traditional and derogatory terms like garbage picker and scavenger. "The movement increases self-esteem. Society has always scorned recyclers, seeing them as the last rung on the ladder," says Galo Flores, who provides support to the movement through a local organization, Ciudad Saludable (Healthy City...
Several weeks ago, Mexican police in Ciudad Juarez had some unexpected visitors—or at least parts of them. In a cooler left by a station near Ascension, the police discovered the heads of four men between the ages of 25 and 35. Officers reported some difficulty in identifying the severed heads, as they could belong to any of nearly a dozen local victims who were kidnapped by gunmen the previous week...
...Ciudad Juarez, reportedly the most dangerous city in the Mexico, is at the forefront of a nation-wide spike in crime rates. Although the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico’s previous ruling political party, had turned a blind eye to traffickers for years, the National Revolutionary Party (PAN) adopted a strict approach against drug trafficking and related crime shortly after it came to power in 2000. In reaction to new policies, particularly President Felipe Calderon’s two-year-old crackdown on drug trafficking violence, noncombatant deaths—numbered at 3,000 since January 2008?...
...countries have as a comparative advantage is cheap labor and little else because of geographical constraints and entrenched, frozen financial and legal institutions. Individuals should be permitted to work in countries with aging and picky populations. There will always be immigrants. A human can work the same job in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas and make six times as much money on the north side of the border. That’s six times as much food in a baby’s mouth, six times as often that a family can run hot water...