NewsOK: OU fans "sitting this one out" because of Juarez fears
On a NewsOK.com online poll, almost half of the more than 800 respondents who aren’t going to the Sun Bowl noted their reasoning was they don’t feel safe with all the violence happening across the border from El Paso.
"Juarez has the highest murder rate in the world,” said Edmond resident Craig Blankenship, who has traveled to the last 10 OU bowl games with a group of about 20 family and friends. "We’re not interested in El Paso. We will stay at home and watch it on the tube.”
Many of OU’s players share a similar apprehension about how safe they’ll be in El Paso.
"They said there’s something going on across the border right there, that it’s not safe,” senior cornerback Brian Jackson said.
"They should have moved the bowl game. It’s the well-being. You’ve got to think about our well-being first, don’t you?”
Juarez violence sparks Sun Bowl fears for OU fans, by Jake Trotter, NewsOK.com, Link
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Journalist seeking asylum mentioned in Guardian blog
Ricardo Chávez Aldana, a reporter with the Mexican radio station, Radio Cañón, in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, has fled with his family to El Paso, Texas, and asked for political asylum. Two of his nephews were murdered recently, and he and his family were also threatened by the alleged killers.
Another Mexican journalist takes flight, by Roy Greenslade, guardian.co.uk, Link
