Juarez violence sparks Sun Bowl fears for OU fans

 
By Jake Trotter | Modified: December 17, 2009 at 1:06 am | Published: December 17, 2009   
photo - Residents wait for news on the periphery of a crime scene in this Nov. 19 photo, while a police officer and a soldier stand guard in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Two women and one man were killed by gunmen at a bar, police said. AP Photo
Residents wait for news on the periphery of a crime scene in this Nov. 19 photo, while a police officer and a soldier stand guard in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Two women and one man were killed by gunmen at a bar, police said. AP Photo

Hollywood hasn’t given El Paso, Texas, the most flattering of depictions.

In "Kill Bill,” Uma Thurman’s wedding party is slaughtered while she is left for dead in an El Paso chapel. At the end of "No Country for Old Men,” Josh Brolin is shot and killed, presumably by members of a Mexican drug cartel, outside his motel room in El Paso.

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In Ciudad Juarez, located just across the Mexican border from El Paso, scenes like those are hardly far-fetched. In a vicious turf battle prompted by the Mexican government’s attempt...
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