Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz's security team is looking into a death threat made against the mayor, and security has been increased, city officials said.
On Wednesday morning, a pig head was found next to a sign stating in part "you have two weeks left to live," the Internet news Web site arrobajuarez.com reported.
Drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa drug cartel uses the term "marranos," or pigs, as a derogatory reference to members of the rival Juárez drug cartel.
Since 2008, both cartels have been fighting for control of a drug smuggling corridor in Juárez in a wave of violence that is believed to be behind the murders in the region.
Chihuahua state police said there had been four killings in the Juárez area as of Wednesday afternoon. There were 14 homicides on Tuesday
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This is just like the song that Dr. Garcia showed us in class from the Tigres Del Norte and their interpretation of the pig. It is kind of sad to think of government officials as pigs but as I was reading in an article by UACJ that they were named pigs because of the "marranadas" (referring to corruption) that they do. Also there are many reasons why they are called this way.
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