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March 13 Killings of U.S. Consulate Staff in Ciudad Juarez
 Carlos Pascual - U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
March 16, 2010
Statement by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual on the March 13, 2010 Killings of U.S. Consulate Staff in Ciudad Juarez:
The entire United States Mission in Mexico is shocked and grief-stricken by the horrendous murders of three members of our official family from the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez, on March 13. Those slain included an American citizen employee of the Consulate General and her U.S. citizen husband as well as the husband of a Mexican citizen employed there. Our thoughts and heartfelt sympathies are with the families of our fallen colleagues who were gunned down returning to their homes after attending a weekend social event.
President Obama, in a statement released by the White House this morning, said that he is "deeply saddened and outraged" by these brutal murders. He pledged continued cooperation with Mexico’s government "to break the power of the drug trafficking organizations that far too often target and kill innocent people."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called me this morning to express personally her anger and grief at the loss of members of the Mission community. Both President Obama and Secretary Clinton have affirmed that this tragedy underscores the absolute need for our continued commitment to work closely with the Calderon Administration to end the influence of drug trafficking organizations and the violence that they spawn.
As the President and the Secretary Clinton have said, "This is a responsibility we must shoulder together, particularly in border communities where strong bonds of history, culture, and common interest bind the Mexican and the American people closely together."
Together with President Obama and Secretary Clinton, I have pledged to our entire U.S. diplomatic community to work tirelessly, in full concert with our partners in the Government of Mexico, to do everything necessary to assure the security of our personnel and their families in Mexico and to ensure that the perpetrators of these horrendous acts are brought to justice.
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