| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2009 
Ciudad Juarez Groups Call for UN Peacekeepers
 Associated Press
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November 12, 2009
| | Business and civic groups want U.N. peacekeepers or advisers in Juarez. | |
Mexico City - Some business groups in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence.
Groups representing maquiladora plants, retailers and other businesses said yesterday they'll submit a request to the Mexican government and the Inter American Human Rights Commission.
The Mexican government has sent more than 5,000 soldiers to the city across the border from El Paso, Texas - but killings, extortions and kidnappings continue.
Ciudad Juarez has had 1,986 homicides through mid-October this year - averaging seven a day in the city of 1.5 million people.
Soledad Maynez with the Ciudad Juarez Association of Maquiladoras says the joint police-army operation to quell killings and crime have yielded no results.
Maynez said business and civic groups want U.N. peacekeepers or advisers in Juarez.
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