(Vatican Radio) A gunman burst into a bar in Juarez- bordering Texas, and opened fire
with an AK47 assault rifle. He shot dead four men, and also three women who were waitresses.
The bar is located just three blocks away from the headquarters of the city's beleaguered
Police Force.
Investigators say this killing spree could be linked to extortion
which organized crime demands on the dot for protection.
Juarez remains at
the epicentre of Mexico's savage unremitting Drug War which has claimed more than
70,000 lives with almost 30,000 missing. Juarez is a feuding battleground between
a cartel which names itself after the City, and the Sinaloa drug cartel which is led
by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who's the World's most wanted drug trafficker.
Unlike
the last Administration, this one publishes the Drug War death toll.
Since
President Enrique Peña Nieto was inaugurated in December, more than 3,000 people have
been murdered by the cartels.