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Ciudad Juárez
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Ciudad Juárez

City on the Rio Grande, in Chihuahua state, northern Mexico, on the US border; population (1995 est) 1,011,800. It lies at an altitude of 1,133 m/3,717 ft opposite to El Paso, which is on the US side of the river in Texas. In 1865 the city was the headquarters of Benito Juárez who founded Mexico as a modern state. It is a market centre for cotton and grain crops.

The city is also the home of the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (1973).



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Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Santa Fe bridge, which connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.
Build bridges, not walls by The Progressive
Solis, who has been deeply involved in addressing the disappearances and murders of more than 400 women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, said she has found her views shifting in favor of the death penalty.
RELIGION, LEGISLATION OFTEN HARD TO SEPARATE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Over the last decade or so, for instance, more than 400 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
Border town violence: as illegal immigrants flood the United States, ... by Kirkwood, R. Cort / The New American
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