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Since June 2009, more than 24,000 manufacturing jobs were added in Juárez while tractor-trailer traffic increased by 22 percent from January to June of 2010.
At the same time, there were more than 2,600 killings in Juárez in 2009 and the city is on pace to exceed 3,000 homicides in 2010.
AND: Yet...."the jobs added in the last year and a half are only a quarter of what was lost during the height of the recession," said trade exec Bob Cook. The job loss “is in the manufacturing and distribution side,” he said. “You absolutely see a complete tie-in with the economy and not with the violence.”
