When Men Hate Women: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez

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105. I live in El Paso

The reason that El Paso usually maintains the rank of the second safest city in America, second to Honolulu, is that El Paso has more law enforcement than most other cities. Every agency is operational here. Border Patrol, DEA, DHS, state, local, county, Texas Rangers, etc. In fact, there has been an active FBI investigation of local government officials, including members of school boards as well as the County Commision, going on here for years which has yielded more than a few indictments and convictions. In addition, people know full well that the local police will shoot you if you should be caught stealing beer from a 7/11 store -- as that has happened in two seperate incidents twice before.
The reason Juarez is cited as the most dangerous city in the world is because of the infighting between and among the drug cartels. The local police were judged to be corrupt by former President Calderon. In an effort to control the violence, the police were replaced by military forces for a number of years, until recently when Calderon left office.
However, the long-running murders of young women remain unsolved as it continues unabated for at least a decade. But the federal, Mexican government has been investigating.
Guns or no guns. Mysogyny or not. Mexican culture or not. Americans in Juarez or not. Martial law or not. Investigations or not. The murders continue.
So, in truth, there is no "hot button" issue to debate concerning these murders. However, it is helpful for people to be more aware of this aspect of what's been going on in Juarez -- for years and years and years.