Eight People Killed in Juarez Yesterday

Molly Molloy of NMSU is well recognized as one of the top experts keeping track of the brutality and killing happening in Juarez. She sent the following this morning:


Eight people in all were killed yesterday in Juarez, including a municipal policeman. Four of the 8 people murdered yesterday were shot to death at about 6:00 in the evening while they were working on repairs to a funeral home that they owned in the Colonia Guadalajara Izquierda.

One of the men who died was El Paso resident Ruben Quezada. People at the scene said the young men (aged 19, 23 and 24) had been involved in the past with the Blue Star gang and that their enemies, the Tiburones, did not forget old quarrels. Besides, the kids had left this behind and were working for a living, painting and doing other interior work on the small funeral business.

Some 120 federal and state police and soldiers came to the scene and were received with anger and contempt by the residents and relatives of the dead men. The attitude of the agents assigned to the scene angered the neighbors who began to yell things at them such as, "get out of here assholes, go look for the killers" and "you are worthless, standing there you look so pretty" and "if you are not going to do your jobs, you might as well get the fuck out of here..." These were among other expressions that the residents of the neighborhood yelled at the agents.

Yet again, I would ask the experts to explain exactly how this mass killing fits into the idea that a CARTEL WAR is the cause of all of this violence and death in Juarez?

In all, the 8 deaths yesterday bring the total killed in Juarez so far this year to 540. For the month of March the total is 164. The average number of killings per day in the month of March is now 7.

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