Doctors are being forced to abandon patients and flee Mexico’s most deadly city of Ciudad Juárez in response to extortion, kidnappings and murder.

Thousands of Mexicans protested the country’s raging drug war on Wednesday as dozens of bodies were found in graves near the border with the US.

Families mourned on Sunday the victims of one of Mexico’s worst shootings, weeping over the open coffins of teenagers as young as 14.

The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers. They slice east to west, west to east, a homicidal pendulum.

Despite crackdown by Mexico President Felipe Calderón, more than 2 000 people killed this year as drug cartels vie for turf.