The United States announced Friday that it has closed its consulate in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez for conducting a "security review."
"The US consulate general in Ciudad Juarez has closed to review its security posture," the U.S. embassy in Mexico City said in a statement.
"The facility will be closed all day on Friday, July 30, and remain closed until the security review is completed," the statement added.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials in Mexico said the consulate was closed following a "credible threat," and warned American citizens to avoid the area around the closed consulate until it reopens after the security review.
Earlier this year, the consulate in Ciudad Juarez was closed for several days after suspected drug cartel hit men gunned down three people connected to the consulate in two separate attacks on 13th March.
Following that attack, the U.S. State Department had authorized U.S. staff in the six consulates along the US-Mexican border, including the one in Ciudad Juarez, to send their family back home to the United States for safety reasons.
The State Department also issued a a travel advisory for Mexico in March, warning US nationals from traveling to border towns in the northern areas of Mexico due to the escalating drug-related violence in the region.
The department later extended its travel warning for Mexico in May, advising US citizens about the precautions they must take while traveling or residing in certain regions in northern Mexico because of the increasing drug-related violence in those areas.
In its travel advisory issued in May, the State Department said the Mexican states of Michoacan, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango and Coahuila were particularly dangerous and advised American citizens to "defer non-essential travel to Ciudad Juarez and to the Guadalupe Bravo area southeast of Ciudad Juarez."
Ciudad Juarez, like many other Mexican states that border the U.S., has witnessed a high level of drug-related violence in recent months. The city is fast gaining the reputation of being Mexico's crime capital after more than 2,600 people were murdered there in drug-related violence last year.
The city of Ciudad Juarez is located along a major route used for smuggling drugs into the United States, and is directly across the border from El Paso, Texas.
The Mexican government says more than 22,500 of its citizens were killed in the country in drug-related violence in the last three years. The killings continue despite the deployment of thousands of troops by President Felipe Calderon.
In addition to the war against drug cartels, Calderon has launched a massive anti-corruption drive named 'Operation Clean-up' to identify and punish public servants with alleged links to the drug cartels.
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