The Women of Juarez
...pposed to show us how we can do something about it. It is to show people how we can take action. Even though I am a white male, living in the United States of America, that doesn’t mean that I should just sit back and not care about what is happening in other countries to women and children. Now that I have gave you my feelings on all of that, I’m gonna go on to tell you about some of the things that I have found about the subject and finally I will tell you who I feel is behind all of this. When searching on the internet you can find some pretty interesting things. In fact there was just another women found in Juarez on the 3rd of December. Here is just a piece of an article that I found from the Kansas City Star. “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 slaying brings to 18 the number of women killed in the area during 2004. The body of another woman was discovered Nov. 25 on the outskirts of Juarez.” It is absolutely amazing to see that these murders and disappearances are still going on today. When you think of things like this you think of olden day serial killers (i.e. Jack the Ripper.) But this is still going on today. You would think that with our technologies that we have we would be able to solve murders like this. Maybe we should have the people from TV shows like Cold Case or CSI come and check these murders out. They always seem to find who did it and why. These mass killings of women are not only going on in Juarez, it is also going on in Guatemala. I was reading the Minneapolis Star Tribune when I came across this article and I thought it was pertinent to this paper. It told of: “Ana Cecilia Gonzalez left home for the corner grocery last month and never came back. The 19-year-old student was found bludgeoned to death a day later, one of 405 Guatemalan women slain this year in a crime wave that has baffled authorities. About half the killings have occurred in the capital, producing a murder rate that far exceeds that of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where about 300 women have been killed in the past 11 years. But the deaths here have not attracted nearly the international outrage as those in the Mexican border city have.” I’m not trying to take anything away from the murders that are taking place in Juarez, but over 400 in one year is something very disturbing. Even though that this is very evident, it is worth mentioning. In both of these cases, the killings are happening in cities that are very “poor.” I think that there might be some correlation and reasons why these things are happening in undeveloped countries. Why don’t we see, or even hear anything, about things like this happening in countries such as Sweden, Japan, or any other country that is known as a “develo...