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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – A wave of drug-related killings claimed the lives of 33 people in Mexico's violence-torn northern border states, authorities said Monday.

The deaths included eight people who were massacred in the early morning hours in a bar in the border city of Ciudad Juarez by gunmen who killed the owner and his wife and then sprayed customers with automatic rifle fire, the local prosecutor's office said.

Four people were seriously injured in the attack.

In another mass killing, heavily armed men in black assaulted a house in Praxedis, 60 kilometers (36 miles) from Ciudad Juarez just across the border from El Paso, Texas, killing six people, prosecutors said.

Two youths, aged 20 and 25, were gunned down in the afternoon in the center of Ciudad Juarez, the country's most violent city where almost 1,300 people have been killed since the start of the year.

Other killings reported in various localities around the northern state of Chihuahua, of which Ciudad Juarez is the capital, brought the death toll to 29 since Sunday.

Four other people were killed in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon in a clash with police and soldiers, the state prosecutor's office said.

Nearly 10,000 people have died in suspected drug violence, particularly in northern border areas, since the start of 2008, amid a nationwide military crackdown on Mexico's powerful cartels.

President Felipe Calderon has deployed more than 36,000 troops across the country in a controversial clampdown on organized crime.






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If the deaths were related to the new voice of Mexico, I'm elated.

The war has been lost. Too many infected institutions...too many infected leaders....too many infected US citizens.....to many infected members of the US congress....one too many infected US presidents.
It goes without saying that everything in Mexico is infected as well.

It won't stop, in spite of the heroic efforts of the Mexican government and the lame US effort to throw money at it. It wont stop.
Why would it? The cartels have done more for the unemployed in Mexico than the government has. They have a job. Thousands of them have a job.
The government in Mexico has no idea of the strength of the enemy. They don't know who on the streets is their enemy. Just like Nam.
And then, as in Nam, they rose up and took over the country, as planned.
This will happen in Mexico with tacit acceptance from the PRI party which will surely take power again. Why?
The people want stability. They want what they had before the US government started pushing, and the PAN party allowed themslves to be pushed. The people of Mexico want peacful streets at any price.
They'll give it up to the cartels for that, in a minute.

As I said, The war on drugs has been lost. Time to look for another way to deal with it.

As long as a market exists for their products, I am afraid you are quite right Dennis...