23 abr 2009

Mexico troops calm border city but complains over human rights

Mexico troops calm border city but complains over human rights
Thousands of soldiers have smothered drug violence in Mexico's bloodiest US border city but police corruption and complaints of rights abuses could hurt their early successes.
Drug killings have plunged by 80% in Ciudad Juarez, a desert city on the border with Texas, since President Felipe Calderon sent in 10,000 soldiers and federal police at the start of March, the state attorney general's office says.
After taking control of city police forces in one of Mexico's biggest operations in years, masked and camouflage-clad soldiers now stand guard outside banks and supermarkets and patrol the streets in convoys,
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