Feb 9, 2011

Collateral Damage: US teen killed in Juárez puts spotlight on Mexico's unsolved murders


US teen killed in Juárez puts spotlight on Mexico's unsolved murders - CSMonitor.com: "At least one US citizen was among three teenagers fatally shot this weekend in the violent border city of Juárez, Mexican authorities confirmed today, in the latest case of Americans caught up in Mexico's drug war.

... Despite reports that two of the teenagers were Americans, Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Carlos Gonzalez says only 15-year-old Juan Carlos Echeverri was a US citizen. He and 16-year-old Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez both lived in Juárez and at various times commuted to El Paso to attend the all-boys Catholic Cathedral High School. The third teenager was Cesar Yalin Miramontes Jimenez, 17.

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