Cartel wars gut Juárez, a onetime boom town

And the real sad thing about this is they are all coming here to the States .

It is real sad that the Mexican people that live in the States don't even want to go to Jaurez , the Place is that violently insane !

And even sadder , that some in our Government don't even recognize that there is a problem !



El Paso Times

CIUDAD JUÁREZ - This violent border city is turning into a ghost town.

Bloodshed from Mexico's warring drug cartels has sent those with means fleeing this former boomtown. Restaurants have moved north to Texas. The dentists who served Americans with their cheap procedures have taken their equipment south. Even the music is dying here.

"The musicians haven't left yet, but they do their shows in El Paso now," says Alfonso Quiñones, a Juárez concert promoter who is trying to organize a jazz festival in the city.

No solid number exists for the exodus, a matter of debate among Juárez's leaders. But the city's planning department estimates 116,000 homes are now abandoned. Measured against the average household size of the last census, the population who inhabited the empty homes alone could be as high as 400,000 people, representing one-third of the city before the violence began.