Thursday, September 3, 2009

1st article

Seventeen people killed in a drug rehab in Mexico.





Random people came with drugs to this rehab center and murdered seventeen patients, while seriously injuring six others on Wednesday evening. This rehab center is located in Ciudad Juarez, in north Mexico near the border of Texas. Over 1,420 have been killed in Juarez this year. About 1,600 were killed in 2008. The deputy public safety secretary of the state of Mexico, Jose Manual Revuelta Lopez was murdered. At 5:15pm, Revuelta was leaving the building when the shooting began. Since Calderon declared war over drug cartels after coming into office in December 2006, over 11,000 people have died since then and 1,000 of them were cops. Many of the violence in Juarez are being committed by the enemy Sinaloa. Juarez had a rate of 130 killings per 100,000 people. Juarez has a population of around 1.5 million.

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