Security & Strategic Review - April 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Politicians in Santa Cruz are already comparing their capital with Ciudad Juárez in its heyday as the ‘murder capital’ of Mexico. The government has declared a state of emergency in the department and ordered a roundup of all undocumented foreigners, on the grounds that they are the main culprits of a spate of killings, in which the drugs trade is thought to have played a part.

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