Caught in the Crossfire, Drug War Takes a Staggering Toll on Mexico's Young
Bill Whitaker - CBS News
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May 3, 2013
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The country is at war with drug cartels and that spills into the U.S. One border town is caught in the crossfire.

Like many people in Juarez, Maria Torres cries at all the suffering. She lost four children in five years: one strangled, two shot, one overdose.

All victims of Juarez' deadly drug-trafficking, she said. The violence has left Torres to raise three grandchildren and a niece by herself on $10 a day.

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