In Ciudad Juarez, the Main Sport Is Raping and Killing Girls
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Young Pretty & Poor Means MURDERED in Mexico
Who is killing the Women of Ciudad Juárez?
Image Source: New York Times
By Samantha Loomes
Managing Editor
The Pawprint
Since the year 1993 thousands of women have been kidnapped, abused and murdered in the Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez, the place once dubbed “the most dangerous city in the world.” Pink crosses litter the city. A way to remember all the women who were taken too soon. Ciudad Juárez has become a city in perpetual mourning for its lost daughters.
Femicide is defined as the systematical killing of women purely based on the fact that they are women, what is happening in Ciudad Juárez is femicide. It’s a pandemic, a United Nations officially declared it so in 2015.
The northern Mexico town is infected with an unknown evil that steals girls in the nighttime, and no one knows who is killing the women of Ciudad Juárez. There have been investigations into the matter of the slain women, there have even been two arrests, but the killing never stopped and neither did the desperation for answers. It is the popular opinion among the residents of the city that the police are doing very little to stop these horrendous crimes some would go so far as to say that the police and local authorities have helped cover up the scandal of the “femicides”. The families believe the victims are kidnapped by the local drug cartels, forced into prostitution and then murdered. For instance in the case of one Lupita Montes, daughter of Susanna Perez Montes mysteriously disappeared in 2009 and was found dead in the desert in 2012. It was later revealed that she has spent several months after her disappearance in a non-too-savoury hotel called “Verde”, which was just a short walk from the town hall. Her mother claims that: “Lots of people know about this. Even people I know were pointing and saying, ‘she was there’ and ‘she was there too. We saw her at night’. But they said they weren’t looking well. They seemed drugged and men were abusing them.”
Idaly Laguna, went missing at age 19 in 2010 and too was found dead in the desert, when her mother realized the authorities would do nothing, she went searching for answers at Verde. She asked the receptionist whether or not she had seen her daughter and said that, “The receptionist didn’t even look at the photo. She just said she didn’t know anything.”
It is clear that the matter of the missing girls is a pandora’s box, bolted shut by the people of the town shrouded in mystery.
It is easy to blame the killings on gang violence that Mexico is so well known for, and to believe that the evidence points to a sole syndicate for these crimes, after all, most of the girls share a bevvy of characteristics, they are all dark skinned, dark haired, dark eyed they all come from low-income families. What people have failed to realize is that there is no sole blame in this case. There is no one syndicate or one true evil, the country itself has enabled the violence against women by leaving it unchecked for so many years.
A study was conducted in 2008 on the Feminicide Database which looked at the murders of the women between the years 1993–2007 the study was conducted at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte where researchers began looking at the heinous nature of each and every crime. They found two types of murders which consisted of the same patterns. The first was classified as “intimate femicide”, which refers to victims who knew their murderers. The second was coined “systemic sexual femicide”, which referred to the woman hunted and murdered by people who killed them without knowing them, murdered them just because they could it was defined as systemic when it included kidnapping, sexual violence, torture, and body abandonment. Intimate femicide accounted for 30.4% of the murders. 30.4% of the woman in Mexico were killed by people they thought they could trust. These murders went unchecked, and the culture of violence against women became the norm.
According to Mexico’s penal code, femicide can be punished with 40 to 60 years in prison, a $2000 fine, loss of inheritance rights, and obligatory economic redress and public apologies to victims’ families.
Yet 98% of these crimes go unpunished.
Six women are murdered every single day in Ciudad Juárez according to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory. Some are only five years old.
Parents find their daughters mutilated, dismembered and stabbed, some are beaten so badly that they cannot be identified, and their parents will spend the rest of their lives wondering if their daughter is one of the unrecognizable, and still 98% of these crimes go unpunished.
If anything the victims themselves are often painted as the villains of the story, authorities blame them for their own deaths, conjuring stories of double lives and secret prostitution scandals. Even more shocking? The relatives of the victims are more often than not revealed to be selling the bodies of the girls to the press so that they can continue to sensationalize the crimes. Anyone who investigates further into the matter is seen as “staining the city’s good name.” The tarnishing of the cities reputation does not go unpunished, over 100 journalists have been killed in since 2000, “Notre Digital”, an online newspaper announced its closure following the deaths of two of their reporters stating that “Awareness-raising about violence in the city was inconvenient to those who dominate the public sphere in their own interests.” In laymen’s terms, the cartels who act as the authorities of the city do not like when people talk about the reality of life in Ciudad Juárez.
The Patriarchal system in Mexico is also a huge contributor as to why the poor treatment of women is so accepted, women have long been viewed in Mexico as one of two things, a obrera (worker) and a ramera (whore). The city is governed by men, the authorities are comprised of men, the factories are owned by men and the cartels are run by men, men who have all been raised to view women as inferior which is why their deaths are viewed as little more than a nuisance created by women themselves because in a man’s world it simply cannot be a man’s fault.
As the London school of economics and political science so aptly put it, “Behind this pandemic there lies a strange kinship between neoliberal economic measures, violence driven by organised crime, a patriarchal approach to working women, and legal impunity around femicide in Mexico.”
So contrary to official discourse, there is pretty damming evidence that the femicide is not a myth, its victims are not prostitutes with double lives and yes! If any real reduction in violent crimes against women is to be seen change is needed, the way in which the country views women must change, the way in which the country punishes murders must change and the utter lack of females in positions of power must change.
Which is why we must commend the people already implementing those changes in Mexico, like the creators of the program and app “No Estoy Sola” (I am not alone), the app works as a quick trigger distress signal, that notifies five contacts chosen by the woman that she is in distress, accompanying the signal is the woman’s location. The app is 100% free of charge and is available on Apple and Android.
Again we must commend the people who created the movement “Ni Una Mas” (Not one more), the people who educate, protest fight the femicide that grips Ciudad Juárez. The people who have risked their lives to offer the women some sort of protection, some sort of peace.
The femicide taking place in Ciudad Juárez is very real, and the people of Mexico need to realize just how terrible it really is. These women are seeking help they’re seeking justice and protection, it’s our job as humans to tell their story, to help them in any way we can.
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Who Is Killing the Women of Juarez?
J U A R E Z, Mexico, Jan. 30, 2002 — Someone is raping and killing the young women of Juarez, and leaving their bodies in the desert to rot.
Hundreds of young women have disappeared from the Mexican border city since 1993 — many of them teenagers who came to Juarez to work in the town’s foreign-owned factories, known as “maquilladoras.”
The official toll is 260 women killed since 1993, but local women’s groups believe the actual number is more than 400. Many of the victims — the Chihuahua state government says 76 — have the hallmarks of serial killings: they were raped, some had their hands tied or their hair cut or their breasts mutilated. Bodies have been found with their heads crushed or even driven over by a car. The killers appear to prey on a certain type of young woman: slim with big brown eyes and long brown hair. Most of the victims are assaulted on their way home from work.
Downtown first went to Juarez to report on the murders in 1998. Since then, the killing has continued, with more than 70 new victims, according to activists critical of the authorities’ handling of the crimes. And, the groups say, the killings are getting more brutal.
“Each time, the girls are more tortured,” activist Vicky Caraveo told Downtown’s John Quiñones in an interview airing tonight.
New Bodies
Last November the 1.3 million residents of Juarez got a brutal reminder of the killings when police discovered eight more bodies near a busy intersection two miles from the city center. Four of the bodies were found in a cotton field and four in a nearby ditch.
One of the victims was Claudia Ivette Gonzalez, a 20-year-old factory worker who had disappeared a few weeks earlier. Her family recognized her remains by the white blouse she had been wearing and the white rubber bands still holding her pony tail. “It was pure bones… just a skeleton,” her mother Josefina Gonzalez told Downtown.
Just a few days after the bodies were found, Juarez police arrested two bus drivers, who they said confessed to raping and killing the eight women and three others. Arturo Gonzalez Rascon, the attorney general of Chihuahua, the state that includes Juarez, triumphantly told the newspapers, “Our investigation has concluded the sad episode.”
But the activists were skeptical, noting that dozens of suspects had been arrested over the years — several of them detained and sent to prison — but the killings had never stopped.
The bus drivers, Victor Garcia Uribe, 29, and Gustavo Gonzales Meza, 28, later claimed that the police had used torture to force them to make false confessions. The local newspaper, El Diario, printed photographs of wounds and burn marks on the men’s legs and stomachs. Gonzalez said that he was also burned on his genitals, and that police threatened to kill his family if he told anyone about the torture.
The head of forensics for northern Chihuahua, Oscar Maynez, whose staff had collected the evidence at the crime scene, resigned in frustration. “There isn’t a shred of evidence connecting the bus drivers with the crimes they are being accused of,” he told Downtown.
Federal Police Called In
Chihuahua state human rights officials are investigating the torture claims, and Mexican President Vicente Fox has ordered the federal police to work alongside the Chihuahua state investigators. But the state attorney general’s office denies the torture allegations and continues to insist the men are guilty. Deputy Attorney General Jose Ortega Aceves, the prosecutor assigned to the latest slayings, said, “All of it is in accordance with the law.” Ortega suggested to Downtown that the men inflicted the wounds themselves, possibly by burning themselves smoking.
Ortega said his office concluded there was no real chance that an American could be behind some of the attacks — something that is “a real possibility,” according to Hardrick Crawford Jr., head of the FBI office across the border in El Paso. “This would be an ideal killing field for a serial murderer given the nature of the law enforcement response to these murders on the Mexican side of the border,” Hardrick told Downtown, adding that the Mexican authorities had so far rejected offers of assistance from the FBI.
Ortega seemed particularly eager to tell Downtown how his party, the PRI, was doing better at solving the killings than the previous PAN administration.
Caraveo and other activists have long accused the local authorities of dragging their feet in investigating the deaths, either through negligence or incompetence. Now they fear the investigation will be further hampered by political infighting. “The local politicians want to make it a point of power for the parties,” Caraveo said.
Maynez also believes politics played a role in the latest prosecution. “We have been scapegoating, framing people for political reasons,” he said.
As in the past, the new arrests do not seem to have stopped the killing. Two more bodies have shown up since the bus drivers were arrested in November, the last one on Monday night.
