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Two Mexican Cities Hugging US Border Among the Country’s Most DangerousMexico City (CNSNews.com) – Experts are blaming drug cartel violence and the increased use of guns by criminals for a surge in homicides in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez on the U.S. border.Tijuana sits opposite San Diego, while Ciudad Juarez hugs the border with El Paso. The Mexican cities each have more than one million inhabitants.The 2016 murder rate in Ciudad Juarez is the highest in four years, said Francisco Rivas, director of the citizens’ group Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano which monitors federal crime statistics.Source URL: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mark-browne/two-mexican-cities-hugging-us-border-among-countrys-most-dangerous
Juarez since the 1980s and maybe before then, has had all of those women disappear as well; not sure if this is as much as a problem in TJ; but it has become a problem throughout Mexico and even rearing its head in other parts of Latin America.