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NEWS & LETTERS, October 2004'Women of
Juarez'
Los
Angeles--I recently attended "The Women of Juarez," a play written and
directed by Ruben Amavizca based on the situation in the Maquilador City of
Juarez, Mexico. Over 400 young Mexican women have been murdered since 1993 and
over 600 others reported missing. Through
the family of one of the victims, the play reveals the brutal nature of life in
Juarez, the daily struggle to make a poverty-level living in the midst of mass
murder. Neither the victim's father nor her boyfriend did anything to
investigate the murder; it was her mother and sister who sought justice. Neither
the police, the Mexican government, the foreign Maquilador owners, nor the press
have seriously investigated the murders or protected the women. Most cases have
not been investigated. The general attitude is that the victims are to blame. As
stated in the program: "The majority of the victims are dark-skinned young
women, factory workers. [They] are kidnapped and raped repeatedly by more than
one person, tortured, mutilated and murdered." Two-thirds of the murdered
women are between the ages of 11 and 20. The movement to solve these murders is international. From Oct. 20 to Nov. 1, a caravan of activists will cross the U.S. and Mexico demanding justice and an end to the femicide. More information is available on www.amnestyusa.org/juarez/salma.html --Basho |
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