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Mexico Border City Groups Call For UN Peacekeepers
Some business groups in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, want the UN to send peacekeepers to the violence-plagued city.
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MEXICO CITY (November 12, 2009)--Some business groups in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are calling on the United Nations to send peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence.
Groups representing maquiladora plants, retailers and other businesses said yesterday they'll submit a request to the Mexican government and the Inter American Human Rights Commission.
The Mexican government has sent more than 5,000 soldiers to the city across the border from El Paso, but killings, extortions and kidnappings continue.
Ciudad Juarez has had 1,986 homicides through mid-October this year - averaging seven a day in the city of 1.5 million people.
Soledad Maynez with the Ciudad Juarez Association of Maquiladoras says the joint police-army operation to quell killings and crime have yielded no results.
Maynez said business and civic groups want U.N. peacekeepers or advisers in Juarez.
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I think the United Nations Forces has their hands full elsewhere and this is an ignorant/stupid request of the Mexican Government/El Presidente!! Par for the course!!!
The horrible violence continues. Just how is the UN suppose to negotiate with the murderous cartels. Actually the domestic wars in Mexico is very similar to the situation in Afgahnistan. You got these terrorists imbedded among the dense population so the military does not know who to target unless they catch them in the act of the crime or an informant snitches them out. This type of battle will continue on for years as more individuals out of the population get bribed and recruted by the cartel. Also applies to the corrupted soldiers, police etc.
Maybe the UN would send the same ones used in Sarajevo, since they did such a wonderful job there.
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