'Rich killers' stalk City of Lost Girls (Ciudad Juarez)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1075952,00.html


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Cartel members live in garish mansions in the
Golden Zone of Juarez, a far cry from the shanties
where most of the city's two million residents
subsist. The narcos pay millions of dollars in bribes
to stay above the law and Juarez has become
one of the money-laundering capitals of the world.
Narco money has built 'legitimate' businesses and
made Juarez the fourth-largest city in Mexico. The
rise of the cartel coincided with the feminicido,
the female murders. The first victim was Angelica
Luna Villalobos; her body was dumped in the Alta
Vista neighbourhood in 1993.

Since then, 370 women have been killed. Some
deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or
random crime. But more than a third of the
women were raped before death. Most victims are
tortured and mutilated. Sometimes the killer leaves
a signature; a breast or a nipple is sliced off. The
bodies are then dumped in wasteland.

The average age of the victims is 16; all were
poor. Their deaths, says Amnesty International,
'have no political cost to the authorities'. Many
suspects are in custody, but the killings go on.

Human rights organisations accuse the authorities
of incompetence, and there have been allegations
of torture used to obtain false confessions.
Women are frightened to go out, day or night,
reminded of danger by the pink crosses marking
places where bodies were found.


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I would like to know if there is a way to stop this horrible murdering of girls in that area? Is there an organization or group of people one can support? I have heard something about this before, and it is just NOT RIGHT.
Please let me and others know what we can do.

Thanks,

Boilerbabe

I will let you know if I find anything

http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/1030-11.htm


CONTACT: Coalition in Solidarity with the
Women of Juarez
Brenda Campos 646.710.0986
Julie Finch 917.613.3788

International Coalition Demands Justice for the
Women of Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

NEW YORK - October 30 - On November 1, 2003 an international coalition, led
by the Coalition in Solidarity with the Women of Juarez and Women in Black,
will hold a silent vigil in solidarity with the 300 women who have been raped,
killed and disappeared in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The candlelight vigil,
which is scheduled to take place on the Day of the Dead, is one of many that
will take place simultaneously across the world in solidarity with Justicia para
Nuestras Hijas and Bring Our Daughters Home (grassroots organizations
started by the families of the women who have been murdered.) The vigil is
co-sponsored by MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization.


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Women in Black( http://www.womeninblack.net/%20 ) is an international peace network operating in Italy, Mexico,
Spain, Germany, England, Azerbaijan, Colombia, and in the Former Yugoslavia.
Women in Black stands in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic
cleansing and human rights abuses all over the world.

and pre-emptively save their lives and dump the scum where he lies.
I love the one about the lady whose dog killed her would be attacker in South Carolina years ago. lol He did not expect to encounter a very mean German Sheppard. She managed to fight him to get to the door and open it and let Fido in. lol

It was about a 10 minute drive from school...and we had an hour to kill. That was in the 60's, and Juarez was a remarkably cool place.

Even then, however, there was a danger from the "white slave trade". There was no set "drinking age" -- anybody could get into a bar and drink. So some sleeze-balls would slip a 'mickey' into some girl & her date's drinks, and when they nodded off, the guy would wake up with no date, and gawd only knows where the girls went.

The FBI investigated it, and according to the son of an FBI agent I went to school with, they were tracking the kidnapped girls all over the mideast and Asia.

Juarez has gotten to be a more and more dangerous place through the years, but still ok if you're really careful. This article is really a heart-breaker, though. Everyone must be scared to death for their daughers, and for themselves! And what a sad turn of life for a place that was, previously, so incredibly fun and wonderful.

:kick:

reminds me of a horror novel I read a while back by John Saul called the Manhattan Hunt Club ... a group of men in positions of power hunting homeless people for sport living in the subway and tunnel system under NY City.

Guess this answers the question I had after finishing the book -- could something like this really happen in a modern society.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3338427,00.html



MEXICO CITY (AP) - Protesters erected altars at
Mexican government offices around the world
Saturday, borrowing a symbol from the annual
Day of the Dead to call attention to the unsolved
slaying of scores of young women in the border
state of Chihuahua.

The demonstrators say Mexican President Vicente
Fox and Chihuahua Gov. Patricio Martinez have
not done enough to solve the killings, saying in a
letter delivered to Mexican consulates that the
investigations have been ``inept and corrupt.''

The colorful altars are a traditional element in the
celebration of the Day of the Dead, the Nov. 2
holiday in which many Mexicans hold graveside
reunions to honor dead loved ones.

``They need to know that more and more people
all over the world are aware of this,'' said Sally
Meisenhelder, organizer of a demonstration that
drew about 250 people in El Paso, Texas, which
borders the desert region where most of the
slayings have occurred.

``This has to stop and they have to get serious
about solving these crimes.''



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I've been following this story for six or seven years. It's gruesome and the 'investigations' have been as grotesque.

I don't see the point of arming the young women. What would anyone do once the perpetrators simply arm up to beat any such problem- tranquilizers, ambushes, tasers? You can't win an arms race against them.

The thing to do is to give the relatives of the victims the appropriate information once it is established, beyond any doubt, who the perpetrators are. Maybe even weaponry. It's a horrible thing to solict vigilante killings, but it would be an end to the obscenity represented the thing as it now exists.

As soon as we arrived at Bush and Cheney's inner sanctum, noticed George Bush, Jr. was with them. It was my experience that Jr. stood by his father and covered his backside whenever Bush would become incapacitated from drugs or required criminal back up. It appeared that Jr. was there to serve both purposes, while his father and Cheney enjoyed their work-vacation.

Hyper from drugs, Cheney and Bush were eager to hunt their human prey in "A Most Dangerous Game." They greeted me with the rules of the game, ordered me to strip naked despite the cold December winds, and told me in Oz cryptic to "beware of the lions and tigers and bears." Kelly's life became the stakes, as usual, which resurrected my natural and exaggerated programmed maternal instincts. Tears silently ran down my cheeks as Bush told me, "If we catch you, Kelly's mine. So run, run as fast as you can. I'll get you and your little girl, too, because I can, I can, I can. And I will." Cheney, daring me to respond, asked, "Any questions?"

I said, "There's no place to run because there's a fence -- the kind I can't get over. I saw it."

Rather than physically assault me, Cheney laughed at my sense of "no where to run, no where to hide" and explained that a bear had torn a hole in the fence somewhere, and all I had to do is find it. He lowered his rifle to my head and said, "Let the games begin. Go."

The Most Dangerous Game: Revisited

:tinfoilhat: ?

The sad thing is that I don't put it past them. :(