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Mexico Mulls Dissolving City Police Forces

(Aug. 25) -- Few mayors are keen to see their own municipal police forces abolished. But few have faced the violence and corruption Jose Reyes Ferriz has seen as mayor of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. "City police have names, they have faces," Reyes Ferriz said in an interview with AOL News. "They are very vulnerable to...

Mexicans to Vote Amid Drug-Fueled Violence

MEXICO CITY (June 30) -- As drug-trade violence mars the run-up to a brace of elections in Mexico, a troubling figure has resurfaced as the leading mayoral candidate in Mexico's murder capital. Hector "Teto" Murguia Lardizabal, 57, a former mayor of the violent border city Ciudad Juarez, left office in 2007 under a cloud...

In Ciudad Juarez, Drugs Fuel a Murderous War

CIUDAD JUÁREZ (March 24) -- Two weeks ago, José Reyes Ferriz, the mayor of the sprawling industrial city now notorious as Mexico's murder capital, got a message affixed to the head of a pig left in a trash bag on the street. The gruesome narcomanta left little to the imagination: "Reyes Ferriz has two weeks to live," it...

Background on Jose Reyes Ferriz

José Reyes Estrada Ferriz (born Chihuahua, Chihuahua, 23 July 1961) is a Mexican politician, affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

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