Thousands of Women are Dying: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez

Femicide: The killing of women because they are women. Violence against women that ends in death.
Some say there are currently 275 dead and 450 missing. Some say it’s 450 dead and 500 more missing. There is no certainty in the number of women murdered daily in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. These horrific acts are hardly heard of in the USA even though they are taking place right on the border of our country.

Droves of women – most of whom are pesoless maquiladora (assembly plant) workers – are disappearing and dying in massive numbers and nobody seems to know why or care. Mexican authorities are described as baffled by some and complicit by others. American authorities have made little effort to get involved.
The City of Juarez is known for many things; including being a gateway to the US, the fastest and largest growing bi-national metropolitan area (along with El Paso) in the world with a population of 2.5 million people. It is also known as a party town where foreigners, especially of American persuasion, come to enjoy excess and entertainment. And that is exactly why many believe the Femicide is occuring.

The women and their murders are entertainment of a new sort. Entertainment including a menu of options for many sadistic tastes. Included on the menu are satanic rituals, snuff videos, and drugged orgies. And the rotting pile of dismembered, burned and sexually assaulted females keeps rising. These serial killings frequently include the removal of the body parts such as the breast, ovaries, parts of the face and extremities. And removal can come in a variety of ways as well; such as bitten off breasts, cut of ovaries, or burned off appendages.
Feminists say that the impunity that men or groups of men feel to mutilate and murder women in Mexico is a message that is inciting a wave of violent crime against women throughout the region and over the border to the US. The families of the murdered girls and women say they believe their daughters, mothers and sisters are being killed off by the rich and psychopathic, overindulgent and powerful politicians, abusive municipal police, tourists, and the wealthy and sexually perverted of Mexico and abroad.

They argue that if a vigilante or group of gang thugs were at the heart of the crimes, the murderers would already be in jail. But in truth, no one knows for sure who the killers are or why they are being shielded from justice. With a city dealing with drugs, corruption and murderous cartels; the deaths of these women may get swept under the rug. But the violence is so out of control in the border city of Juarez that it seems to be infecting the culture and consciousness of the people. A good example is that few people in Mexico or the US have noticed that over 4,000 persons have disappeared in the border state of Chihuahua since 1993.

There seems to be nothing really “known” with any certainty with regard to the investigation of the femicide in Juarez; including the number of dead and missing. What is obvious is the inability of Mexican authorities to control violence and criminal behavior in Ciudad Juarez. The reality is that it cannot be known how many hundreds or thousands of young girls and women are being murdered. Corrupt authorities have been found to pin false charges on innocent men by beating and coercing confessions from them. Once the deaths are blamed on “that killer” the count begins again. So with each new “breakthrough,” there is also a new setback. The fact that the murders continue is really of no consequence.
The problem of violence against women is a matter of international human rights; and one which people everywhere should try to end. If the drugs and murders originating from drug cartels across our border are spilling into our country, won’t the violence against women, the disrespect of females in poverty, and the disregard for human life also begin to spill into the USA?

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