Mex. lawmakers call for ban of video game set in violent Juarez

[LostAmerican]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - A shoot-'em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence.

Chihuahua state legislators said Sunday they have asked federal authorities to ban "Call of Juarez: The Cartel," which is based on drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez.

About 6,000 people died in drug-related violence in Ciudad Juarez in 2009 and 2010, making the city, across from El Paso, one of the deadliest in the world.

The website of game developer Ubisoft Entertainment SA says the title is due for release in the summer. Screen shots from the game show three characters armed with a pistol, an assault rifle and a shotgun ready to open fire on a city street.

The game's promotional slogan urges players: "Take justice into your own hands and experience the lawlessness of the modern Wild West." No one answered a message left at the company's San Francisco office.

Ricardo Boone Salmon, a congressman for Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located, said the Legislature unanimously approved a request asking the federal Interior Department to ban the game.

"It is true there is a serious crime situation, which we are not trying to hide," Boone Salmon said. "But we also should not expose children to this kind of scenarios so that they are going to grow up with this kind of image and lack of values."

State congress leader Enrique Serrano said the main concern was the potential effect on children in Ciudad Juarez, some of whom have already been taught to "duck and cover" if firefights erupt outside their schools.
"Children wind up being easily involved in criminal acts over time, because among other things, during their childhood not enough care has been taken about what they see on television and playing video games," Serrano said. "They believe so much blood and death is normal."
It is not the first time city officials have been angered by references to Juarez's problems.

In 2010, the New York-based MAC cosmetics company abandoned Mexican sales of a makeup collection that raised hackles because it featured pallid, ghostly hues said to be inspired by deaths of women in the city. The collection of lipstick, blushes and other cosmetics used names like "Juarez," "Bordertown," "Ghost Town" and "Factory."

More than 100 women were abused and murdered before their bodies were dumped in Ciudad Juarez's desert between 1993 and 2003. Many of the victims were factory workers.

In 2004, the city's then-mayor called for a boycott of the song "The Women of Juarez," by Los Tigres del Norte, one of Mexico's top-selling bands. It blasted Mexican authorities for failing to solve the killings of women.
(Arizona Daily Star)

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[waltky]

53 Dead In 72 Hours...

Even by Juarez standards, a deadly 72 hours
February 21, 2011 - Fifty-three people were killed in a 72-hour span in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, including four police officers.

Fifty-three people were killed in a 72-hour span in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, making it one of the deadliest three-day periods in recent memory, state attorney general's office spokesman Arturo Sandoval told CNN Sunday. Among the dead were four police officers from three different agencies, Sandoval said. "This is the worst violence we've seen this year," he said, referring to the three days from Thursday through Saturday. The bloodshed started on Thursday with 14 people killed, including a municipal police officer.

Friday was the most violent day, leaving 20 people dead. A municipal police officer was killed by an assassin who belonged to a band of carjackers. Hours later, a state police investigator was executed on his drive home. On Saturday, a highway police officer was killed by a driver who confronted the patrolman after the officer gave him a ticket. The officer was shot 10 times at close range in the middle of the afternoon. In all, 19 people were killed that day in separate shootings throughout the city.

Elsewhere Sunday, Mexico's Public Security Secretariat reported that 13 taxi drivers were killed in the resort town of Acapulco in a rash of violence that began early Friday. Suspected drug traffickers are believed to be behind the violence, setting cars ablaze and destroying street lights and security cameras. Among the casualties, a human head was discovered on a street and another body was found near a charred vehicle. The security office said four people were arrested in connection with the killings, and an investigation is ongoing.

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Official: Man who killed 3 defending his home is gunned down in Mexico
February 10, 2011 -- A man who became a local hero after killing three armed men while defending his Ascension, Mexico, residence during an attempted home invasion last month was killed Tuesday -- and authorities are investigating whether the two incidents are related.

Alonzo Sandoval, 50, and his wife were killed around Tuesday evening at his auto parts store in Puerto Palomas de Villa, about two hours outside Ciudad Juarez, a spokesman with the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office said. "Police agents were assigned to monitor his business for protection, but he refused because he said the agents would scare away customers," said spokesman Arturo Sandoval. "We sent agents there anyway to make rounds by his business about six to eight times a day."

Sandoval -- who is not related to the spokesman -- was killed about 30 minutes after police left the victims' business, the spokesman said.

"He lawfully defended his property and his family and now he is dead. We cannot concretely say one event had to do with the other, but it is part of our investigation," Sandoval, the spokesman, said. The attempted home invasion took place January 29. Sandoval "lawfully" defended his home with a gun that was legally registered to him, the prosecutors' office said.

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[Hillbilly Girl]

This would be like gays asking to stop a video game that depicts them as preferring the same sex. Or liberals trying to stop a video game that depicts them as being clueless, helpless, stoners who don't understand how the world works.

 

[LostAmerican]

This would be like gays asking to stop a video game that depicts them as preferring the same sex. Or liberals trying to stop a video game that depicts them as being clueless, helpless, stoners who don't understand how the world works.

This game is simply a reflection of what really exists in Mexico.......and LA RAZA hates it!

 

[AmericanFirst]

This would be like gays asking to stop a video game that depicts them as preferring the same sex. Or liberals trying to stop a video game that depicts them as being clueless, helpless, stoners who don't understand how the world works.

This game is simply a reflection of what really exists in Mexico.......and LA RAZA hates it!

Good, if la rza hates it, it must be good.