Female Homicides

[marie]

My familiar relation with City Juarez is very strong. I have very much fondness to this city. So I have thought a post wrote on an event that happens there, that is concealed from the world. Without going beyond, in November, when I visited the city, 3 women were murdered. My relative, Socorro Tabuenca, is a director of the Frontier College North (COLEF) and they investigate the events. Which makes me more sensitive to the topic.

The violent death of hundreds of women in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the US city of El Paso, Texas. Alls cases remain unsolved.

The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been young women, between 17 and 22 years of age. Many were students, and most were maquiladora [workers in foreign owned factories]. A number were relative newcomers to Ciudad Juarez who had migrated from other areas of Mexico. The victims were generally reported missing by their families, with their bodies found days or months later abandoned in vacant lots or outlying areas. In most of these cases there were signs of sexual violence, abuse, torture or in some cases mutilation.

Behind every finished product there is the disciplined and efficient manpower of million workers of low cost of the countries in development that they them manufacture. 70 % of the American factories of Mexico, is in this city. They have bus to be going to work, but they have not bus to return to house. Many women, are kidnapped in this distance.

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Approximately, 1000 women have died. The number is confused, for that great possibly, they are buried in the desert, and her corpses will never be opposing.

To forget to live? I think that we are lucky of having born and living in a good place, and it is not of any more, to try to think about the persons, who have not had so much luck in his life.

To sign a petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/NiUnaMas/petition.html

THANKS!!!

[marie]

Elizabeth Castro, a 17-year-old maquila worker who went missing on 14 August. Her hands were tied with her shoelaces. She had been raped and strangled. On 22 August the skeletal remains of 16-year-old Angélica Márquez Ledezma are found. On the day she disappeared she had gone to look for work in a maquila with her husband. She never returned home. The body of another woman who could not be identified was found next to her. 16-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera is found dead on 1 September in Lote Bravo. Eight days later, the body of 20-year-old Olga Alicia Carrillo is found in Zacate Blanco. The autopsy reveals bitemarks and that pieces of her left breast, including part of the nipple, have been bitten off, possibly by a human being. The bodies of Adriana Torres, aged 15, Ignacia Morales and Cecilia Covarrubia, aged 16, are found. Cecilia had gone missing with her baby, who has still not been located.

[A.D.W]

Quite shocking, Marie.

[kelly_j]

Hi Marie, u know it goes on but when you read names and ages i find it really disturbing and upsetting, my feelings go out to the families who lost loved ones in this tragic way.

[AntiPathos]

Saw a documentary about this last year on BBC4. Truly shocking.

[lindylou]

Shocking.


What more can you say.

Marie this is so Terrible.

[marie]

Pardon!! I could not answer before. I have been working many hours this week...

The situation is horrible in somes places of the world, the imbalance between rich and poor.

Another case is Cancun, is turning into a tourist destiny for pederast (sex with children). The injustices are more unjust for me, when it is a question of children and elders, because they are more weaks.

Really there is horrible everything what happens and unfortunately in television, Beckham and Vitoria occupy more time, that cases like these.

What can we do? My opinion is that the children are the future. A good education in the respect, the equality of sexes, religion, etc. To educate in the tolerance.

A gesture, a signature in support to a campaign, does not occupy time. The information is the best weapon.

To think about the luck that we have of having a work, one place where to sleep, eaten, etc. Thank for having had an opportunity in the life.

My experience in the colonies of City Juarez was hard. They are normal families. Families without resources but good persons. Families that work very hardly for companies yankees, but that gain very little money.

It was a surprise the treatment that receipt. We leave our vehicle with objects at sight, huntresses, glasses, rucksacks... Nobody I touch the car and we were bién received. They are poor, humble people but honest persons. Theirs life is very hard, to add the problem of the femicidies. I wait that someday this problem finishes.