Once known as a booming industrial city and a model of economic progress in Mexico, the border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world. <br /><br />More than 8,000 people have been killed there since 2008, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent in the army to carry out his offensive against the drug cartels. <br /><br />The official story is that the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels are fighting for the city and the access it provides to the multi-billion dollar US drug market only a few hundred metres away. <br /><br />On this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing travels to Ciudad Juarez, and asks how human life there came to be worth so much less than the drugs being trafficked through. <br /><br />Episode first aired June 13, 2011 2230 GMT on Al Jazeera English. <br />http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/ <br /><br />Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AJFaultLines <br />Follow on Facebook: http://facebook.com/AJFaultLines<br />Follow on Tumblr: http://ajfaultlines.tumblr.com <br /><br />See all episodes of Fault Lines: http://www.youtube.com/show/faultlines?s=2010 <br /><br />Meet the Fault Lines staff: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL2A3A165068A8A650
