Urban warfare

The Geo Quiz visits a Mexican city where business leaders are fighting to restore an image that’s been damaged by years of drug violence and crime.

Julian Leyzaola, the new police chief in Ciudad Juárez vows to control crime in Mexico’s most violent city.

Shannon Young reports that many ordinary Mexicans are so fed up with the level of violence in their country that they are increasingly speaking out. The protests are aimed not just at Mexico’s drug cartels, but also at the government.

On this last day of 2010 we revisit the story taking place in Ciudad Juarez, in Mexico. It’s a story that we’ve been sad to return to repeatedly, not just this last year, but over the last four years. Yesterday we heard reports of four more dead in the longstanding Mexican drug war between drug […]

The assassination of a pregnant U.S. consulate worker and her husband brought significant attention to the violence plagued town of Ciudad Juarez. Two weeks later, a less conspiratorial picture of what happened on that tragic day seems to be emerging.