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Ciudad Juarez - Mexican city of one million people, located on the banks of the Rio Grande River that forms the border in this place between the US and Mexico. On the opposite bank of the Rio Grande is a large US city of El Paso, with Juárez which forms the border agglomeration. Border Juarez is a major transportation hub, one of the main transit points between Mexico and the United States. Recently, however, he gained notoriety due to the high crime rate. Ciudad Juarez called the most criminogenic city in the world in 2009, it is only for the first 10 days of 2010 in Ciudad Juarez have been killed, according to unofficial data, more than a hundred people.
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1. Previously, the US city of El Paso (El Paso) and the Mexican Juarez (Juarez) is a single community. But today, the violence perpetrated in Juárez, and associated with the Mexican drug war shocking the residents of El Paso.



2. Last year, violence related to drug trafficking, claimed the lives of more than 2 thousand people in Juárez. Pictured above: the members of the gang "Barrio Bajo & quot; ("Bottom Area") hang out in the town square in Juárez. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



3. police check near Bista de Zaragoza (Vista de Zaragoza) in Juárez. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



4. Many residents of El Paso continues to commute to Mexico to work on the bridge over the Santa Fe, at the top (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



5. View Border settlement (Colonia Fronteriza) in Juárez (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



6. Rescuer provides first aid to 25-year-old Erica Pinera (Erica Pinera), who was wounded three unknowns. Her fiance, who was sitting behind the wheel, was killed. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



7. A police officer stands at the crime scene in the settlement of Felipe Ángeles (Colonia Felipe Angeles) in Juarez, where three people were killed. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



8. Juarez atmosphere of the occupied city. Soldiers are constantly combing the city in the army truck. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal).



9. A man protests against the current President of Mexico Felipe Calderon (Felipe Calderon) during his visit to Juarez March 16. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



10. The members of the group "Aztec" behind bars in a high security section of the prison of Ciudad Juárez (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



11. Last year, during a fight that occurred in prison Juarez between the "Aztecs" and rival factions, 22 prisoners were killed and seven wounded. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



12. A woman and her sick husband waiting for "fast" in a house in Juarez. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



13. Soldiers patrol the shoe area (Colonia Zapata) in the west of Juarez (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



14. Drug traffickers and gangsters Juarez are not terrorists or guerrillas - basically they do not kill government soldiers and each other. At the same time, they are using partisan tactics borrowed from sudden fast attacks, after which completely dissolved among the civilian population. In the picture above - a crime scene in Juárez. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



15. The members of the group "Lower District" stand against the wall in Juarez. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



16. Homeless heated by the fire (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



17. A police officer patrolling the streets in the center of Juarez (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



18. Women mourn the husband of one of them killed by a hired killer in Juarez. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



19. The authorities on both sides of the border are trying to somehow influence the situation, but, in spite of all the actions taken, the violence does not stop. (Jerome Sessini for The Wall Street Journal)



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