Juarez.

Juarez,

Most people know of Juarez due to the 400 or more women that have being, tortured, raped and killed. A sick, pathetic thing that is blamed to different people, some blame drug dealers, other the rich people and others. But now a days it ain't these topic that's calling the attention it's about the drug war and all the killings of people (some innocent, some not so innocent i.e. drug dealers).

It does get me very frustrated, upset and annoyed at the fact that i can not do anything to stop all these killings. There's being more that 1,300 killings since February to now, and not just killings, also kidnapping for money, asking businesses for quota's to supposedly protect them, which obviously they won't but want their money no matter what, if you don't give the quota ''something can happen to you'' they say, and so they do, they kill you or torture you.

Drug killings used to be different before, not saying the killings were or are right in anyway, but at least before they didn't put the city in danger, and it's citizens. Juarez at the moment is the face of violence, and fear for who's next and who will get in the way unfortunately.

The Juarez i knew was different, i studied in one of the best private schools in Juarez, i used to love it and once it hit 3.30pm I'd be on my way to the house on the school bus with my brother. The streets everywhere used to always look safe, and even the 'cholos'(term use in Mexico for now gang members) didn't mess with you, everyone used to be friendly. You would not see as much violence as now, not even close to it. The killings per day now are 8 persons at least all over the city, it doesn't matter if it's on the poor state or the rich state.

To make matters even worse, the authorities in Mexico are bought off by drug dealers. Before everybody knew that you could bribe some police man if they gave you a fine, but now they get bribed to let 'sicario's' ( mexican word used for low hitman) to take human lives. To be quite honest you don't know who you can trust authority wise, since there are a very few that still try to protect the city from this scum that are drug dealers. The army has gotten involved too, and loads of other organizations, but this has only made things worst, i.e. more killings, kidnapping, robbery's etc. It's being said the army has stopped innocent people in cars, put drugs in the cars, say they found some drug dealers, than take them to a secret location and torture them and let them go when they get tired of torturing. There's no doubt these people are sick, pathetic and the scum of the earth.

Something needs to be done to stop this, Juarez needs help, the people are scared, annoyed and they've being betrayed by their authorities. These killings need to stop!