Cuidad Juárez, Mexico—On top of a hillside where a rutted dirt road curves beside a fence made of old mattress springs, the dusty brown and gray landscape is broken by a line of bright-pink wooden crosses adorned with plastic roses. There is a saying in the area that, if you want to find Juárez, located just across the border from… return to article
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Reader Comments (6)Page 1 of 1 pagesI live here, on this hemorraging border, the limbo state. There is an open call to all violent predators, that on the border there are no rights, that you can kill women, or better said young, oh so young ladies at will with no repurcussions. everyone is to blame, from the Mexican police, to our own government, for NAFTA, the thug aggreement between the few, has fermented a stifling, repugnant state of desperation and poverty. Yet we balame the migrants for attempting to survive. These young, usually poor maquiladora working ladies (one of the youngest was ten years old, she suffered four heart attacks during her assasination) continue to be victims of our world of indifference, greed and capatalism.
NI UNA MAS! NOT ONE MORE!
we shout out that not one more person should be a victim. Last week, police in Juarez, found the tortured body of a nine-year old boy...the culture of violence is not exclusively genderized, it bleeds into all aspects of border life, it does not respect the fences between nations. And this has been called the laboratory of the future. Is this what your future will look like America? Free trade is neither free, nor about trade, and now the few want to have “free trade aggrements” with the all of the world, they seek markets, not caring about how it manifests itself, tangibly violent. who will persecute and prosecute the economic terrorists who are to blame for atrocity after atrocity, and who are concocting more?
Posted by Teresa Beard on May 23, 2003 at 11:31 AM Would like to learn more about the current state of labor standards in the maquilladors… what corporations are emplying workers there?
Posted by DMAX on May 24, 2003 at 5:56 PM “NAFTA, the thug aggreement between the few, has fermented a stifling, repugnant state of desperation and poverty”
Could you explain?
“one of the youngest was ten years old, she suffered four heart attacks during her assasination”
Could you explain why you made up such nonsense?
Posted by Nus on May 28, 2003 at 3:27 PM “can you explain” Why is it made-up? Because YOU don’t believe it? Have you not heard “that the truth can be stranger than fiction”? There is a war going on against women and has been going on for years. bush is a part of this war aginst women: look at his record? Men “love” women but only for sex? And are and have been unable to accept the fact that most women are smarter than they are. If you were stranded anywhere who would want some smelly, beer swilling thug polluting the air with farts and other annoying personal hygine “habits”? I will take a well read WOMEN anytime! Knowing that she is going to be good company too. Put that in your peacepipe and smoke it!
Posted by Chief Joseph on May 29, 2003 at 5:41 PM I work with an orphanage in Mexico over the summer and have become very intersested in human rights issues all over Mexico, especially those that deal with the US-Mexico border. These murders are disgusting and I am still at a complete loss when it comes to action, prevention, and justice on the United State’s part. Has anything at all been initiated by US government to do anything about these horrendous murders? It is still beyond my level of comprehension that people are so ignorant to things like this
Posted by Emily on May 31, 2003 at 12:26 PM Okay i live about 5 minutes away from Juarez, chihuahua. Juarez is now a cemetary for all of those young dead women. My sister was almost going to be a victim of one of those horrid crimes. Luckily she’s okay. I am not allowed to go near Juarez, it’s not as if i want to go near it..too many chances i’d be taking. I am currently doing a report for my speech class on this subject. Very saddening subject. I hope all of these deaths stop and i also hope the people responsible for these mindless crimes are punished severely. I give my condolences to all of those who have lost a loved one in one of these crimes. Please we all have to do something about this! NO MORE! Ni una MAS! as they said when all of the mothers of the victims got together..NI UNA MAS!
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