100th anniversary: Mexican Revolution not even as deadly as Juárez now
EL PASO â Jurez is deadlier now than during the Mexican Revolution, a border history expert said Thursday.
Oscar Martinez, a history professor at the University of Arizona, gave the first in a series of lectures at the El Paso Museum of History marking the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
Martinez said he is often asked about casualties in Jurez during the revolution compared with the current violence. The conservative estimate is that about 300 people died in battles in Jurez during the entire Mexican Revolution of 1910, he said.
âThe important thing is the total number is only a fraction of the people killed in the last three years in Jurez,â Martinez told an audience of more than 70 people at the museum. âItâs a catastrophe. And that is no revolution going on. It is a civil war between cartels.â
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