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Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía has damned the renowned video game “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2,” (GRAW 2) which is set in El Paso and Juárez, a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua that stands on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), across the border from El Paso, Texas.

The Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 game, which was released on Wednesday for the Xbox 360 game console, features fictional battles between an elite U.S. military unit and Mexican rebels in the borderland.

Murguía stated, “Violent video games instill values which are upside down, and these actions are despicable because they attempt to divide the good will of the residents of American and Mexican cities.”

Murguía believes the game paints a negative picture of his city and encourages tension between the United States and Mexico.

In a news release, after interviews with Juárez media, Murguía asserted that the GRAW 2 game exposes children and teens to ideas that are xenophobic and warlike and that breed violence. He asked Mexican federal authorities to act immediately to prevent the game from reaching children.

However, a little before Juárez’s condemnation of the game, El Paso Mayor John Cook said he had no problem with the game.

The game takes place in 2014. Elite soldiers from Fort Bliss are sent into Mexico to prevent a group of rebels from reaching the border and launching an attack on U.S. soil. Combat takes place in Juárez, and a climax features a fight for control of El Paso.

Last year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman wasn’t pleased when a similar game, “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas,” showcased a terrorist assault on that city. He felt that the game could be “economically harmful” to his city.