MEXICO: Big News In Juarez...Nobody Was Murdered Today!

AP/MIAMI HERALD/ Long Feature/
On October 30, Cuidad Juarez's biggest newspaper headlined: "Not one person murdered," the first time in 10 months without a slaying. Yet by the end of that day, 9 people were killed. Ciudad Juarez is now among the deadliest cities in the world with about 2,250 killings this year, or 173 per 100,000 residents. That compares with 37 per 100,000 in Baltimore, the U.S. deadliest city. Violence began in early 2008, when Sinaloa drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Juarez drug leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes began a fight over drug routes their organizations had once shared. Now violent death is part of everyday life there despite a massive infusion of troops.