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of legitimate authority. President Felipe Calderón has tried to smash the cartels by deploying the army, and he has sent thousands of soldiers into Juárez. The assault has eliminated some drug lords, but that has in turn encouraged turf and succession struggles, making for increasingly bloody upheaval. The conflict has claimed some 40,000 lives in Mexico since it began, and Juárez has seen a tenfold increase in its murder rate, reaching more than 3,000 homicides last year. El Paso, by contrast, had only five murders. It is estimated that some 230,000 Mexicans have fled the violence, about half of them to the United States. Since 2009 the El Paso metropolitan area's population has grown to around 800,000 residents, up by 50,000, an undetermined but significant percentage of them coming from Juárez. El Paso has been among the nation's best economic performers through the recession -- its gains coming, in part, because of Mexico's losses
jeopardized three to four days after a suicide-murder story and then again, but to a lesser degree, a few days later. We would be well advised, then, to take special care in our travels at these times. _ _ Chapter 4 SOCIAL PROOF As if the frightening features of Phillips' suicide data weren't enough, his ad- ditional research (Phillips, 1983) brings more cause for alarm: Homicides in this country have a simulated, copycat character after highly publicized acts of violence. Heavyweight championship prize fights that receive coverage on network evening news appear to produce measurable increases in the United States homicide rate. This analysis of heavyweight championship fights (between 1973 and 1978) is per- haps most compelling in its demonstration of the remarkably specific nature of the imitative aggression that is generated