Courtesy The Daily Mail: 2,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police reinforce the existing contingent of 2,500 troops in Juarez. Fighting between rival drug cartels, gangs, and Mexican authorities claimed over 6,000 lives in 2008 -- making Juarez a beefed up, 21st century version of Dodge City.
--John Noonan
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