25 Slain in Mexico; 85 Inmates Escape

Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city. Farther east on the border, 85 inmates scaled the walls of a prison and escaped Friday in Mexico's biggest jail break in recent memory.

Despite the violence, President Felipe Calderon hotly disputed a statement this week by Hillary Clinton saying Mexico resembled Colombia two decades ago. "I think the main thing we have in common with Colombia is that both of our countries suffer from US drug consumption," Calderon told the Spanish-language network Univision. "We are both victims of the enormous American consumption of drugs, and now the sales of weapons." (More Ciudad Juarez stories.)