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More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
On April 7, 1996, the torso of a woman was found in a vacant lot on the outskirts of the city, in a property called Lomas de Poleo, as well as several bones belonging to other victims. The torso belonged to Rosario García Leal, a 17-year-old employee at a Philips store who disappeared on December 7, 1995; she allegedly died of a craniecephalic ...
Nayeli Macías, left, marches with her daughters, Layla, 4, and Ximena, 8, as they enter the 16 de Septiembre tunnel a women's march in Ciudad Juárez, March 8, 2024.
Violence surges in the Mexican border city of Juárez amid a war between La Linea and La Empresa crime organizations.
The United Nations (UN) has rated Mexico as one of the most violent countries for women in the world. [1] [2] According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography in Mexico (INEGI), 66.1 percent of all women ages 15 and older have experienced some kind of violence in their lives. [3]
Former Fort Bliss soldier Saul Luna Villa, who is accused of killing a woman in Juárez on April 7, 2023, is posed with Chihuahua State Investigations Agency and Interpol agents following his ...
An FBI and U.S. Border Patrol task force recently arrested a Juárez woman in a raid at an El Paso motel in a border case featuring a dark brew of drug trafficking, mutilation killings and the ...
Alejandro was an orphan. He was baptized Armando Martínez. [4] He spent a portion of his childhood in orphanages in the United States. During the 1970s, he was adopted by Guillermo Máynez, a Chihuahua business entrepreneur and owner of approximately 20 bars and nightclubs in Juárez, and his family, who gave him his surname and changed his name to Alejandro.