Cuidad Juarez

This is my political rant, and I have avoided using this blog for such, but this matter is something of important to me and it seems only right to spread the news and create awareness about the atrocities that are occurring in Cuidad Juarez.

Since 1993, more than 500 women have been killed and more than 5000 women have disappeared from Cuidad Juarez. This has become known as feminicide, as only women in the city (the majority of them being indigenous) have been targeted. They are raped, murdered and buried in the desert. The American government and Mexican government keep covering up the murders of these women by trying to control the new reports in Mexico. Most of the women that are killed work in maquilas, cheap labor factories that are located in export processing zones. Maquilas run on a 24 hour basis, and the women that leave late at night after their shift is finished are greatly at risk from being kidnapped and murdered. The multi-million dollar corporations that are located in Cuidad Juarez are not providing security for women leaving at night and moreover, are making them work for a cheap salary (around $5 a day).

Something needs to be done. Having more than 500 women killed, in which the majority of these cases have not been solved is not only disturbing, but completely unacceptable. I know that being one person trying to spread the word around is difficult and making a difference is nominal; however, trying to spread the awareness if step one. And if we could all just be aware of what is happening, that in itself is making a difference.

Please check out the website below and sign the petition, because not one more woman deserves to be killed.

www.witness.org/dualinjustice

Lady S.