Despite Violence, Manufacturing in Juárez Climbing
In 2009, more than $42 billion in trade value moved through the ports that Juárez shares with El Paso, representing 15 percent of the total trade between the United States and Mexico. That number is estimated to be even higher in 2010.
Since June 2009, more than 24,000 manufacturing jobs have been added in Juárez, and the amount of tractor-trailer traffic hauling goods through the region increased by 22 percent from January to June of 2010 versus the first six months of last year.
At the same time, there were more than 2,600 grisly murders in ...
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Cheryl Walker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Like we are supposed to care??? We are having record unemployment an we are supposed to feel sorry for a country that can't get it together on it's own but still wants our companies to come across the border for them to have our business! Bullshit i am sick and tired of keeping my mouth shut about this one!!! STOP THE MAGNET! STOP THE MAGNET!!!
Sarah Bird
Question: Why if the violence is "a byproduct of the raging battle between the rival Sinaloa and Juárez drugs cartels" are the vast majority of those murdered not in the drug trade?