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Mexican Town's Residents See No End To Violence

NPR | By Jason Beaubien

Published July 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM EDT

More than 520 people have been killed there in Juarez, Mexico, in drug-related violence since the start of the year.

Arson has destroyed some of Juarez's largest nightclubs and restaurants.

The police department is under attack and from both organized crime and the mayor. And most residents say there's no end in sight to the turmoil.

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Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is a Peabody award-winning journalist. He's filed stories from more than 60 countries around the world. His reporting tends to focus on issues in lower-income countries. Often his reports highlight inequities, injustices and abuses of power. He also regularly writes about natural disasters, wars and human conflict. Over the last two decades he's covered hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in the Philippines, multiple earthquakes in Haiti, the Arab Spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the drug war in Mexico.