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 Crime library has a rather outdated but helpful overview of this horror.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?
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