Despite a massive deployment of armed forces and federal police in drug trafficking zones, some 4,000 people have been killed in Juarez during the past two years.
VOA: standard.2009.12.18
Exactly 60 years after the massive allied forces invaded France to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny, heads of state from 17 nations were at the international ceremony.
There is also no word on a massive push for local police forces who toil with low wages and antiquated equipment - the so-called quick response team of the Maharashtra police, for example, has not fired a single shot in the past year because of the lack of ammunition.