Borderland residents stranded in Jalisco amid violence in Mexico last weekend
Heriberto Perez Lara
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Several residents of Juárez and El Paso have reported and posted on social media that they were in the Mexican state of Jalisco last weekend when violence erupted throughout the state and surrounding areas.
ABC-7 spoke with a Juárez resident who traveled to Guadalajara for work, but that work was canceled due to road and street closures by members of a Mexican cartel. This was in response to cartel leader “El Mencho” was killed after a Mexican military operation on Sunday. Her flight was also canceled due to these criminal actions, and she is now waiting to return to Juárez.
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