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Article: Conditioned for murder: Juarez killings show cost of misogyny.(Letter From The Border)
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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BEGINNING IN 1993, SHOCKING REPORTS RESOUNDED from Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico, about the abduction and beyond brutal murders of women, mostly young, always brown and poor, found in garbage dumps or left as carrion in the vast surrounding desert. Enough grisly similarities appeared to cause authorities to suspect a serial killer or killers. Over a decade later, girls continue to disappear: factory workers, store clerks, school girls, mothers and sex workers. Days, weeks later, if their families are lucky, their bodies turn up. In terms of exact numbers official reports vary, but some 300 women have been murdered in this ever-expanding city, of which about 100 are ...