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MASSACRE CENTRAL; This week Mexico's army blitzed a former holiday resort to the stars that's now the most deadly place on earth, where drug gangs have made murder, beheading and torture a way of life.

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date: 05-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: MASSACRE CENTRAL; This week Mexico's army blitzed a former holiday resort to the stars that's now the most deadly place on earth, where drug gangs have made murder, beheading and torture a way of life.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: by Andrew Malone

BRISTLING with firepower, faces hidden by balaclavas and sunglasses, the troops arrived by land and air.

In scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood action film, convoys of military vehicles stretching for more than half a mile snaked into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday, carrying 5,000 soldiers and federal police armed with assault rifles and rocketpropelled grenades.

Their mission? To tackle rampaging drugs gangs whose turf wars have left more than 6,000 people dead in a year -- 700 in the past month.

It is a last desperate move in what has become the murder capital of the world.

Once an upmarket holiday resort for rich Americans, Ciudad Juarez is in the grip of anarchy as rival gangsters battle each other -- as well as the police and army -- for control of this key staging post for drugs into the lucrative U.S. market as well as onwards to Europe.

Described as a 'narco insurgency' that threatens the entire nation, the...

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