Fearful drug addicts abandoned in Ciudad Juarez
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CIUDAD JUAREZ — Thousands of drug addicts live in the shadows of Ciudad Juarez, the infamous Mexican border city at the epicenter of a wave of brutal drug violence as well as growing drug use.
Abandoned by authorities, the addicts live in fear of drug gangs who threaten and sometimes kill them for no apparent reason, including several brutal massacres in drug treatment centers.
“Now they enter houses and kill us. We keep this window open so we can at least try to escape over the roof,” said a drug user who gave her name as Carla, inside a house used as a “shooting gallery” for heroin in Barrio Alto, a central district dotted with abandoned businesses.
Groups of addicts huddle in hundreds of similar spots of desolation in the border city across from El Paso, Texas, from which thousands of wealthier residents have fled in recent years..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101017com6.html
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