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Article: Mexican, foreign rights groups decry Ciudad Juarez `feminicides'.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- December 4, 2004
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Byline: Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY _ The body of a young woman was discovered Friday in a busy intersection in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, renewing concerns among human rights groups in that border city that the decade-long pattern of such slayings continues.
Authorities in Chihuahua state, where Juarez is located, downplayed any linkage between the latest victim, who appeared to have been strangled, and the sex slayings of almost 100 women in Juarez and environs since 1993.
"The woman is between the ages of 24 and 27, and our initial autopsy shows that she was strangled," said Claudia Elena Banuelos Mendoza, a spokeswoman for the state ...