Mexico's ascendant cartel is making a deadly addition to a trafficking hub on the US border

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Ciudad Juarez -- just across the border from El Paso, Texas -- has long been coveted by Mexico's narco traffickers, representing a gateway into the voracious US drug market. Fighting for control of Juarez turned it into one of the most violent cities in the world between 2008 and 2012, but, much to the relief of people on both sides of the border, that violence has eased. During the course of 2016, however, the violence picked up. But the body count wasn't the only rem...