Ciudad Juárez

Author Lolita Bosch created a website, Nuestra Aparente Rendición, or “It seems we have surrendered,” to track the people killed in Mexico’s drug war. She wanted their memories to be more than a passing reference, and she wanted to get people talking about the violence and its aftermath.

A massacre in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez this weekend has raised concerns about the city’s future. The city’s falling crime rate had been held up as a model for all of Mexico — but this murder, the second mass killing since September, rekindles fears that were just starting to abate.

Not long ago, violence related to Mexico’s drug cartels devastated Ciudad Juárez, a city on the Texas-Mexico border. Now, violence is down and residents are trying to help the children left behind by it.

In Juarez, Mexico, the once-bustling nightlife had been dead for years as violence erupted in the city. But, in recent months, as police have setup checkpoints and drug violence has stabilized and perhaps even subsided, the nightlife is returning.

Juarez, Mexico, has become one of the world’s most violent cities. Though it’s adjacent to the United States, many are struggling to understand the violence.