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Title: Border Land Fight Boils Over [Mexico]
Visit: Border Land Fight Boils Over [Mexico]
Author:
Kent Paterson, Newspaper Tree
Dated:
31 Oct 2005
A long-running land battle between a working-class neighborhood and one of Ciudad Juarez's wealthiest families is heating up...residents of the low-income Lomas de Poleo colonia pulled down a fence on Tuesday, Oct. 18, that had been erected on the contested property...[T]he [protestors were] mainly [low-income] women...Dating back years, the Lomas de Poleo conflict pits hundreds of families against Pedro Zaragoza and his private security guards...Colonia residents accuse Zaragoza's 60-member private security force, which allegedly includes gang members and drug abusers in its ranks, of toting around illegal AK-47 rifles and other high-powered weapons. Many claim women are sexually harassed and neighbors intimidated by the security guards...Last August, colonia resident Luis Alberto Rodriguez was murdered by suspected Zaragoza guards.
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