Thousands of Mexican soldiers pour into the country's most violent city in crackdown on drug gangs

Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend. ... 'This is to reinforce the operation in general ... to eradicate kidnappings, extortion, assaults and homicide....' The soldiers are the first contingent of as many as 5,000 troops and federal police being sent to Juarez.