Our broadcast this evening starts in Ciudad Juarez, one of the most dangerous places in the world just a couple miles across the U.S. border from Texas.
The drug war there kills an average of 8 people per day and has residents living in fear.
Thursday night, Mexican President Felipe Calderon was in the city, hearing criticism that the government was not doing enough to quell the violence.
Mariana Sanchez of Al Jazeera English reports from Mexico’s murder capital.
Can Ciudad Juarez be saved from the drug violence?
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02/19/2010 :: 01:24:26 PM
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