Minuteman founder calls for U.S. Army incursions to stop drug cartel violence.
Calderon, who was in the border city in his third visit there in a month, called the weekend slayings of three people connected to the U.S. consulate "resentful, inadmissible and profoundly deplorable," the Times said.
In a speech to several hundred people, Calderon offered a plan that would attack poverty, improve education and health facilities and offer financial assistance to families in an effort to combat organized crime and the drug war that has turned Juarez into the most dangerous city in Mexico, if not the world, the paper reported.
Meanwhile, Mexican officials said Tuesday they are confident they would soon arrest those responsible for killing Lesley A. Enriquez, 34; Arthur H. Redelfs, 36; and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, in a pair of drive-by shootings Saturday as the three left a children's birthday party, the Times reported.
"We expect the investigations of the Chihuahua state attorney general, with help from the Mexican federal attorney general and the U.S. law enforcement agencies, will result in the detention of the people responsible for the crimes," Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Tuesday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday promised to "rescue" and "rebuild" the city of Juarez, which has been plagued by 4,700 slayings since early 2008, the El Paso Times reported.
Calderon, who was in the border city in his third visit there in a month, called the weekend slayings of three people connected to the U.S. consulate "resentful, inadmissible and profoundly deplorable," the Times said.
In a speech to several hundred people, Calderon offered a plan that would attack poverty, improve education and health facilities and offer financial assistance to families in an effort to combat organized crime and the drug war that has turned Juarez into the most dangerous city in Mexico, if not the world, the paper reported.
Meanwhile, Mexican officials said Tuesday they are confident they would soon arrest those responsible for killing Lesley A. Enriquez, 34; Arthur H. Redelfs, 36; and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, in a pair of drive-by shootings Saturday as the three left a children's birthday party, the Times reported.
"We expect the investigations of the Chihuahua state attorney general, with help from the Mexican federal attorney general and the U.S. law enforcement agencies, will result in the detention of the people responsible for the crimes," Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Tuesday.
