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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2008 
Juárez Mayor Wants Federal Help to Curb Street Violence
 Louie Gilot - El Paso Times
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 |  | We will ask the federal government to send federal officers to Juárez. They have a great number of federal police in Tamaulipas, but they have less than 100 in Juárez.
- Mayor José Reyes Ferriz |  | | | |
Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz said Tuesday that he would ask the Mexican federal police to intervene and try to stop a recent rash of street executions in Juárez.
Reyes Ferriz said local police were not equipped to deal with violent drug cartels.
"We will ask the federal government to send federal officers to Juárez. They have a great number of federal police in Tamaulipas (where federal police and soldiers clashed with drug traffickers this month), but they have less than 100 in Juárez."
"We need the intervention of the federal government," he said.
Reyes Ferriz said he would like to see 200 to 300 more federal officers in Juárez.
There were 26 homicides in Juárez in the first 15 days of 2008 - or 1.7 homicides a day, double the average of 0.8 homicides a day last year. So far, none of this year's murders have been solved. In El Paso, there has been one homicide since Jan. 1.
Many of the victims in Juárez were young men and died in what appeared to be drug- and gang-related incidents.
The latest two victims, who were killed Tuesday, were Francisco Natividad Blancas Onti veros, 37, whose body was found on Cisne y Maclovio Herrera Street, and a 30- to 35-year-old unidentified man found on San Francisco Street.
Both had been stabbed to death.
Last week the Mexican federal government sent officers and soldiers to battle alleged members of the Gulf cartel in Reynosa, across from Hidalgo, Texas.
Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot(at)elpasotimes.com |
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