More than 400 Girls and Women Murdered in ten years in La Ciudad Juarez

[Mike 03]

It's true that I posted on this subject last week, with much more detail, including links and excerpts from articles.

But I was reading up on it today and my feelings of being totally appalled and overwhelmed overcame my ability to document what I was reading.

There has to be something we can do to obtain justice for the families of the women and girls murdered in La Ciudad Juarez.

And we need answers:

WHO is responsible for these heinous, horrible slaughters?

WHY are they being carried out, and for what possible reason do people feel free to victimize these vulnerable victims???

WHY are the police incompetent and so inept and unwilling to search for the actual killers?

WHAT can we do to help get justice for them?

This is a despicable situation.

I can't stand it when it happens in Oakland, California, and I won't tolerate it when it happens on the border of my country.

These girls and young women have families who love them. They have mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, boyfriends and employers.

If anything like this happened to one of my sisters, I would be inconsolable, and probably irrational.

I am wondering what I can do to help those who are trying to remedy this hideous mystery?

This is a disgrace, and I'm relieved that recent events in Ciudad Juarez have catapulted these hideous events back into the news.

PLEASE post any notions you have about how any of us can help find justice for these murdered and missing females.

Thank you in advance for your caring.

[Taverner]

1. Juarez is known as "Disneyland for Serial Killers"

Definitely despicable

[bemildred]

2. There were 480 murders in LA in 2006 alone.

Probably something like half of those were women. I'm not dissembling what is happening in Ciudad Juarez, but I'm not sure it's worse than LA either.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Depends on if you're talking about that number of murders in the

city of los angeles (3.5 million) or la metro area (12.8 million).

If it's the first, then LA is worse - if the latter, Juarez is FAR worse off.

[bemildred]

5. Well, I think the women are far from all the murders in Cuidad Juarez too.

As far as La, here is one:

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Los+Angeles&state=CA

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

10. Not likely women usually make up between 1/4 to 1/3 of murder victims.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. And now that there's a "drug problem" authorities are paying attention.

Juarez is a disgrace.

[JI7]

7. the war on drugs is a disgrace

i think rolling stone had an article on it and how it's ruining mexico and a lot of it has to do with our(USA) support for the war on drugs.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Actually, I was showing how the authorities have their priorities misplaced.

It seems "drugs" are more important than women.

[JI7]

15. this is true and i actually didn't even think of that

and in the case of the women being killed most of them are innocent unlike the law enforcement where many ARE involved in the drug trade.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. I think the cartels killing police officers is what has them paying attention.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Exactly. Because when it was women dying it didn't matter. n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

16. They didn't seem to care much about the civilian men getting killed either.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. If they were honest, they would show these murders going back almost 20 years.

I lived in El Paso from 1987 to late 1989. It was still pretty safe then (if you didn't make an ass or a big show of yourself) to go back and forth across the border. Shortly after I left, in the very early 90's is when I first heard of this problem. Women, missing in the desert. Hundreds of them.

I don't know how to help, but I think of them often. I loved that area, and the people who made it the special place it was.

[SoCalDem]

8. who is responsible?

men who have no regard for women, and who see them as vessels to violate and then dispose of..

I find it hard to understand why there has not been a better effort to educate the women/girls of that area, about how to stay safe..

If some/most of these women are prostitutes, there is probably little that can be done, since they take their lives into their own hands with every "date", and in a Catholic country like Mexico, they are not very high on the "Regard-o-Meter"

[Hanse]

9. Who's responsible? Nancy Reagan.

And other drug warriors.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

11. So Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Tipper Gore are responsible also?