Statistics on Ciudad Juarez
2. By national median scale, it has the highest standard of living in all of Mexico in terms of salaries, purchasing power, movement of capital, and other economic variables.
3. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas (the U.S. city that adjoins it), comprise the largest bi-national metropolitan area in the world, with more than 2.2 million inhabitants.
4. Despite having experienced an economic downturn in its maquiladora industry, Ciudad Juarez has the lowest unemployment rate in Mexico: 0.9% in 1999 and 3.5% in 2002.
5. It is considered by investors worldwide as one of the best places for business in all of Latin America.
6. Even with its recent crisis in the industry, it employs the greatest number of people of any Mexican city in the maquiladora export industry, a critical factor for the national economy.
7. 300 women murdered in ten years! Though these tragic murders are not justifiable by any means, in a reasonable perspective, we are talking about an average of 30 homicides per year. By comparison, the City of Philadelphia, with a comparable population, experienced 309 murders in 2002 alone.
8. Ciudad Juarez registered a total of 194 homicides in 2001, including those of women. This translates to a rate of 15 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. However, Baltimore (with a population of 651,562), had 256 homicides in that same year - a little over 39 per 100,000 inhabitants.
9. Murders related to narco-trafficking are the result of turf wars among traffickers themselves, against themselves, and nothing else.
10. From 1980 to 2000, Ciudad Juarez's population grew by almost 1,000,000, mostly due to the migration of people from the interior of the country, people in search of better employment opportunities and higher standards of living.
(Sources: I. N. E. G. I. 2000, 2000 U.S. Census, U.S.A. Today, FORTUNE, El Diario de Juarez, U.S. Department of Labor)
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Things have changed for the worse - drastically for the worse.
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I just got back from Juarez, on a machine startup. The 10 days I was there, I was only 3 hours from being in the line of fire of a drug cartel police execution, and minutes from witnessing a runaway car from accidently mowing down and killing a family of three, the bodies, and pieces were patially covered after the event. THIS PLACE IS A HELLHOLE!!!!!DON'T GO THERE!!!!