At least four times a week, I cross the border between Texas and Mexico. It's part of my job: I'm a professor at the University of Texas-El Paso, and I also teach and research at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez.El Paso and Juarez have long been considered a single community, one divided by a borderline but united by everything else. Our economies depend on each other. Our languages blend into each other. We have the same culture and values. But the brutal drug war taking place in Juarez during the past 18 months, which has claimed more than 2,500 lives, is slowly dividing these two cities.
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