Drug violence in Mexico has impact in Chicago - Chicago Tribune: "Cipriana Jurado still weeps when she thinks of her longtime friend who was gunned down in the violence-plagued region of Ciudad Juarez, just below the Texas- Mexico border.
Now in Chicago, Jurado said she was warned after the January slaying that she could be next if she didn't leave town.
The veteran human-rights activist is part of a steady trickle of Mexican nationals who have been fleeing to Chicago and other U.S. cities amid a Mexican government war against drug cartels in Juarez that has led to 2,850 deaths so far this year, with criminals and authorities alike alleged to have committed atrocities." Nov. 26, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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