Juárez police chief Roberto Orduña Cruz resigned Friday after the drug cartel killed six city police officers this week and threatened to kill more unless he left the force.
Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz and Orduña announced the resignation at a news conference.
“I cannot place my sense of duty above the lives of my officers,” said Orduña, a former army major who was hired last May to oversee the department of 1,600 officers. — El Paso Times, photo via the BBC
