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Mexico deploys 1,500 extra soldiers to border city
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 21 - 06 - 2009


Mexico has deployed 1,500
more troops to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez,
where homicides related to the drug trade have surged in
recent weeks, AP reported.
The extra soldiers will begin patrolling the city Monday,
said Enrique Torres Valadez, the spokesman for the joint
security operation of soldiers and state police in Ciudad
Juarez.
A total of 2,500 troops arrived Saturday night in the city
across the border from El Paso, Texas, Torres said, though
about 1,000 of them are relieving soldiers already on duty
there.
Drug-related killings in Ciudad Juarez declined to about
one per day after the army sent some 5,000 troops there in
March, bringing the number of soldiers patrolling the
streets to about 7,000.
As homicides declined, some troops withdrew. But last
week, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said
killings in Ciudad Juarez have risen again to an average of
eight to nine per day. State officials haven't given a
reason for the increase.
Through mid-June, there have been 800 killings in the city
of about 1.3 million people, a level similar to the
approximately 1,600 deaths in 2008.
With the deployment Saturday, 5,500 troops are now in
Ciudad Juarez with another 1,300 patrolling surrounding
areas.
Local, state and federal forces will step up patrols in
the most dangerous parts of the city and increase checks of
suspicious vehicles, Chihuahua state Public Safety
Secretary Victor Valencia said last week.
Local police have been working alongside the army, which
is scheduled to begin withdrawing later this year. The
resurgence of homicides, however, calls into question
whether that withdrawal will be possible so quickly.
The federal government is recruiting, equipping and
training Ciudad Juarez police with the goal of bringing the
force to about 2,500 by September and 3,000 by the end of
the year.
But the force, which currently numbers 1,200 officers, has
lost people faster than it can replace them. More than 900
agents were fired, resigned or retired last year.
Some were dismissed after failing psychological,
background and other checks as part of a campaign to clean
up the department. But others quit after watching
colleagues gunned down by drug gangs or seeing their names
turn up on hit lists left in public.


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