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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING By Charles Bowden

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If you happen on this page and have info or opinions to share please leave me a comment. If your input is not whacked I will try to place it in the body of the blog. Yes I will be the judge because here, and pretty much only here, I am the boss! I am working on locating more research sources. There are several outstanding books on the subject. I have contacted several sites for permission to use thier materials. As I said in a earlier post the point of this is to disseminate information, all accurate information is greatly appreciated.

Credit due...

"There is no better place in the world to kill a girl than in Juárez."

I give so much credit to the bloggers out there. This has been up one day and feeling a bit stressed and tired. The main reason for this little piece of the internet is to try to get people to click the first link as I did. Once I was aware of the travesty that is Juarez I could not stop trying to find information on it. Because the killings have been going on so long it is a bit overwhelming parsing through current and dated material. You may as well just read everything because you will eventually, anyway. It is extremely underwhelming that for fifteen years this has been going on unabated and underreported. Theories abound as to the perpetrators...Organ harvesters, drug dealers, snuff film producers, the rich, the poor, the powerful, the bus drivers’, Ad nauseam. I think that unless they pick up every rug in Mexico, most of the killers of these women will not be punished here on earth. As an American, I can trace the murder of women right back to my computer, my closet and my jeep. A maquiladora or maquila is a sister factory to a U.S. company. For about five dollars a day, thousands of workers in Mexico and elsewhere make goods to be sold here in the U.S. While working conditions are difficult, harassment, some say pregnancy tests and low wages, the real danger is just outside these factories. If a woman is late for work she is locked out and has to manage a way home, often at night with no money. Being poor can and has been fatal.

From Karla Sais's website;

"It is to and from the maquiladoras that most of the women vanish and, perhaps, because of them. Seventeen-year-old Claudia Ivette Gonzalez worked for Lear's factory, and was locked out of her factory for arriving three minutes late. Claudia walked toward home alone and died before she got there. In the days following her death, Lear issued its official response to the slaying: "Gonzalez's murder did not happen on Lear property." The Gonzalez family received no consolation from the company."

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Thank you Sprocket and Steev for all your help and quick response.

Wholesale Slaughter

In Ciudad Juárez Mexico there is a humanitarian crisis. Women are being murdered and tourtured with alarming frequency. Crime library has a rather outdated but helpful overview of this horror. There is a great deal of information on the internet decribing the crimes but there is very little main stream attention. The Washington post did do a story in thier camera works feature. The problem of femicide is a weave of sex, drugs, politics, international trade policy, poverty, border control, and corruption. Mexico is a country who's culture is sytematically being marginalized by insatiable North American comsumerism. In turn the women of Juárez are further marginalized by bosses, fathers, brothers, husbands, police, politicians, and drug and sex trade lords. Every day women are being beaten physically and emotionally into submission. If you knew that a childs life is the cost for your new sneakers would you pause for a moment?