February 6th 2009 -- 207 murdered so far in Juarez (it borders El Paso)

The El Paso Times The Mexican army and heavily armed federal police with a helicopter flying overhead raided a drug warehouse Thursday morning in Juárez even as killings are surging beyond the extraordinary levels of last year. If it isn't a war zone, it would be hard to tell by the body count, which has reached 207 in the Juárez area this year. In the first five days of February, 54 people were slain, surpassing the 37 homicides in all of February last year. The usual be-headings and executions etc. click on the title for rest of the article.