Ciudad Juarez hits 3,000 murders for the year

In reaching a milestone any city would hope to avoid, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, recorded its 3,000th murder on Tuesday, CNN reported.

The city is one of the focal points of the deadly drug cartel war that is waging in Mexico. It sits across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, which in contrast, recently was named the safest large city in America in a survey of crime statistics.

Two killings on Tuesday pushed Ciudad Juarez's total to 3,000. The vast majority of the killings are related to the cartel war.

"At 12:15 p.m. we hit 3,000 murders for the year. The state attorney general's office had the number at 2,998 as of Monday and with the two murders today that brings us to 3,000," Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney, told CNN in a phone interview.

-- Lance Murray

Comments

[Notch Johnson]

Come on Juarez, you can do better than that. Step up your game. I want to see 4000 next year. You can do it, you have to believe.

[Thomas Z]

Christ cant someone just nuke the place off the map? It's pretty obvious that the violence cant be contained by anything short of the military. The sight of a nuke or just carpet bombing the city back to the stone ages might convince the cartels to rethink their violence.

While you're at it clean up the Mexican government too since its so diseased and corrupt that it'd be better to dismantle it from the top down.