Juarez- Violence and Danger
I thought that I would post this, a little something that happened to me a while back in Juarez, Stuart and myself stopped by the new V Bar, just off 16th of Septembre to have a drink with one of his girls, we left and ventured to the Kentucky Club, Stuart left early to go home and I stayed on for a few more cocktails, as I began the short trek to the bridge, I crossed the street to buy some cig's, suddenly, a short little prick lunged at me and caught me right on the chin with a punch, I wasn't hurt but out of pure reaction, shot a straight right back to knock him down, the cig vendor told me to vamos as the cops were close by, when I got home, my chin was a bit sore, but I began to wonder, what if the asshole had stabbed me with a knife or worse yet shot off a pistol, a few days later, Soraya phoned me to say that she had been in the V Bar and a gunman came out of the bathroom firing a 9mm pistol (she dove under the table ala "Scarface!)By the way, the V Bar (old Ahuas) is a pretty swanky joint. Last week, the owner and coach of the soccer club Indios were murdered. I don't buy the theroy, that only drug people are being shot. Juarez is worse the Bagdad or Beirut at its worse. Up until this above listed trouble, I had still been going to the luxxor and out with Soraya and the girls. No longer. Too dangerous for this puppy!
Here's another news paper article
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601774.html?hpid=topnews[/url]