New UT Arlington exhibit offers gripping look at ‘Life and Death in The Northern Pass’
“There are two ways of thinking about living here; either you go on every day and when it’s your turn to die you die, or you live every day in fear.”
-- Daniel Gonzalez, 26, former Ciudad Juárez resident
Daniel Gonzalez echoes the sentiments of thousands of others living in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, arguably the most violent city in the world. Historically known as El Paso del Norte or The Northern Pass, the city of 1.5 million saw more than 3,000 murders in 2010 — more than were killed in the entire country of Afghanistan during the same year, according to the U.S. and Mexican
