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Violence surges in the Mexican border city of Juárez amid a war between La Linea and La Empresa crime organizations.
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 ...
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]
An armored vehicle of the Chihuahua state police makes its way down a street in Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Juárez gang accused of removing hearts ...
Father Francis: a priest of Our Lady of Guadeloupe Church, he is the head of Contra el Silencio a nonprofit organized to speak up against the violence against women, he also leads rasteros walks around Juarez to look for missing bodies. Lydia Villa: Ivon and Irene's mother, a deeply religious Catholic women. She resents Ivon for being lesbian ...
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Maquiladora women workers are not the only ones affected by the violence. The majority of those murdered and who disappeared are women and girls who work at local retail, students, teachers, and sex workers. [2] Many people began calling this situation a feminicide because of the degree of violence and high numbers of dead women in Juarez ...
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 ...