Feb 01 2012
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Drug cartel death threats force police in Mexico’s most violent city into hiding
Some 2,000 police are hunkering down in hotels in Mexico’s most violent city of Ciudad Juarez after a drug gang threatened to kill an officer per day if their chief refused to resign.
Eleven police officers, including four commanders, have already been killed in the city across from El Paso, Texas, since the start of the year.
The city’s mayor this week ordered police to use several local hotels as temporary barracks to protect themselves from attacks on the way home from work in the city at the heart of Mexican drug violence that has left 50,000 dead in five years. (Photo: Jesus Alcazar/AFP/Getty Images)
(via nationalpost)
