Over the weekend the federal government sent an additional 5,000 soldiers to its murder capital, the dusty, sprawling and (seemingly) hopeless border town across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, which is strikingly calm by comparison--the fourth-safest city in the United States.
Some of the soldiers will replace 2,500 going on relief. The total number of federal police and troops will hover around 10,000. They're taking over the municipal police forces and the prison and commerce departments, in effect they're militarizing Juarez. It's apparently the first time in post-Revolution history that a city has basically handed itself over to the army. Let's see how Calderon's gamble plays out.
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