article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was once known as the murder capital of the world.
article_snippet.sent: Back in 2010, at the height of cartel violence, Juarez averaged 8.5 killings per day.
article_snippet.sent: Juarez was at one time the deadliest city in the world.
article_snippet.sent: U.S. Rep. Robert "Beto" O'Rourke of Texas speaks of a time between 2009 and 2012 when men, women and children were killed indiscriminately.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office told CNN that at one point, there were days when Juarez had more than 20 killings.
article_snippet.sent: More than 3,000 people were killed in the deadliest city in the world just four years ago, but so far this year there have been 89 killings, according to spokesman Julio Castaneda -- a dramatic decrease in the cartel violence.
article_snippet.sent: Just this past year (in 2014) there were 424 homicides.
highlights_snippet.sent: Cartel violence helped make Juarez the murder capital of the world five years ago .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But the murder rate in Juarez has declined rapidly since 2010 .
  