Juarez Residents To Mexico President: Enough Is Enough

Mexico President Felipe Calderón got an earful from angry residents Tuesday while visiting Cuidad Juarez to tout new social programs aimed easing the rampant drug violence that plagues the border city, according to a report in The Christian Science Monitor.

“We are sick and tired, Mr. President,” read the display of the local newspaper El Diario in Ciudad Juarez, next to a photo of a body bag in the middle of the street.

Mexico’s most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, could also be the place that Mr. Calderón, who has relied on a military strategy to root out organized crime as the cornerstone of his presidency, loses support.

“Ciudad Juarez has been the case study of the Mexican military strategy,” says John Ackerman, a professor at the Institute for Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Up to 10,000 troops and federal forces have swarmed into the border town, across from El Paso, Texas, since 2008. “And things have just gotten worse.”

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