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U.S. closes consulate in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez
MEXICO CITY |
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. government has shut indefinitely its consulate in Mexico's most violent drug war city Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, to evaluate security conditions.
The U.S. embassy in Mexico City said in a statement on Thursday that the Ciudad Juarez consulate would "remain closed until the security review is completed."
A U.S. enforcement official who declined to be named said the consulate had closed after receiving a "credible threat" but did not have more details. The embassy was not immediately available for comment.
It is not the first time the consulate, which processes Mexicans looking to travel or emigrate to the United States, has been shuttered. It closed briefly in March after three people connected to the consulate were murdered by drug hitmen.
Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world's most violent places, with some 6,000 people killed over the past 2-1/2 years as rival drug cartels fight over lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.
Mexico's drug war has killed more than 26,000 people, mainly cartel members and police officers, since President Felipe Calderon took power and launched an army crackdown on traffickers in late 2006. The rampant violence worries Washington and foreign investors.
(Reporting by Missy Ryan and Mica Rosenberg in Mexico City and Tim Gaynor in Phoenix, editing by Philip Barbara)
Whats going on?.
Watch out El Paso.
This looks like a Bad sign.
Obama knows something and is not sending forces to the Texas border to protect another state with a Rep. Governor.
Juarez is a war zone more deadly than Afghanistan.
Whats going on.
Juarez used to be a great place to spend a day, or an evening.
El Paso is still, pretty much, a safe place.
Maybe the decent, educated, cultured, Mexican people of El Paso will be like a ‘building block’, or a ‘roadmap’ for the Mexican and American Chicanos who went crazy in the 60es and 70es, and began the glorification in the Hispanic culture of violence, ignorance, greed, and used ‘reverse racism’ to promote a distorted ‘Chicano Slang’ view of the Hispanic Culture, that never, ever was embraced by the majority of educated Mexican people,anymore than ’street Rap’ was ever indicative of the ‘average’ American.
A culture of anti-anything, or anyone, that does not agree with, or promote this bizarre ‘Chicano’ view of ‘Hispanic’ society has become so pervasive however, that Hispanics are on their own in combating the disgusting elements within their own ranks.
It has come so far that a person of any obvious other ‘race’ than ‘Chicano’ who CAN speak Spanish, is looked upon with suspicion these days by many of the ‘Chicano’ psudo-Hispanics who cannot speak decent Spanish OR English, and who seem to assume that ‘culture’ is somehow in their genes, and is not something that, like everywhere else on the Planet, must be learned, as it is passed from parent to child.
Spanish is, for all of its mis-associations in this hemisphere, just another European language. Mexico has a University that was already one hundred and fifty years old when the first pilgrim set foot on Plymouth Rock.
Mexicans, please show that you are basically STILL the same beautiful, cultured, friendly people you were.
Don’t let these idiots, either in Mexico, or in the US, destroy you and your culture.
