As his council members and other invited guests descended from the dignitaries’ entrance of the Gimnasio Universitario in Ciudad Juárez, the city’s new mayor, Héctor “Teto” Murguía Lardizábal, instead arrived through an entrance open to the general public — to rousing applause, handshakes and “thumbs-up” gestures from the thousands of Juarenses on hand to salute the beleaguered city’s new leadership.  

Murguía took the helm on Sunday from the embattled former mayor José Reyes Ferriz, whose three-year term will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the darkest times for the city of 1.3 million ...

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