Dear Pittsburgh Panthers football fans: have fun while visiting scenic El Paso this week for your team’s Sun Bowl appearance against Oregon State. But the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW has a bit of advice for you: for the love of God, whatever you do, don’t go into neighboring Juarez, Mexico for a fun-filled night on the town. That is, unless you want it to turn into a bullet-filled night.

Juarez is the front line of the current war taking place between the Mexican government and the drug lords who really run the country. Essentially, it’s turned into “Traffic” but not nearly as uplifting. There have been nearly 1,600 homicides in Juarez in the past year, including 150 in December alone.

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