The Juarez Project
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"Speculation has been never-ending about who was responsible for the murder of those girls—there were several dozen of them, tangled among the statistics for hundreds of other, more random female homicides. It was always clear that the police were somehow involved—the grotesque laughter at the police station, the switched clothing on a couple of bodies eventually returned by police to the bereaved families, the systematic destruction of evidence, all pointed in their direction. But it seemed unlikely that lowly police officers would have the political backing to engage on their own in sick serial murders and remain unpunished, even as a worldwide campaign mounted to protest the killings."
Guillermoprieto, Alma "The Murderers of Mexico" The New York Review of Books October 28 2010.
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Border Echoes – Lorena Mendez-Quiroga
"After weeks in Ciudad Juarez, Bender came to a disturbing conclusion: Chihuahua state police officers, the same public servants charged with solving the women’s murders, were likely behind numerous rapes and killings.
Bender based his hypothesis on conversations with Chihuahua state policemen who revealed to him sex parties attended by fellow officers. He heard how a couple parties were raided by Chihuahua state cops who did not know “their own people were there.” No legal action resulted against the policemen, Bender said, adding the sex parties could have been initiation rites for soldiers and policemen into the ranks of organized crime.
'You got to prove yourself to work for these people,” Bender contended. “So they have these wild parties and rape and kill a woman and then earn their keep in the cartel.' ”
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"Bender also left Ciudad Juarez with a bitter after-taste in his mouth. Looking back, he said the professional disarray he encountered was no accident, but a system of “chaos by design” to protect the criminally powerful."
Frank Bender forensic artist.
"Skulls and faces: Investigations and the pursuit of justice for women in Juarez"
Kent Paterson
"Speculation has been never-ending about who was responsible for the murder of those girls—there were several dozen of them, tangled among the statistics for hundreds of other, more random female homicides. It was always clear that the police were somehow involved—the grotesque laughter at the police station, the switched clothing on a couple of bodies eventually returned by police to the bereaved families, the systematic destruction of evidence, all pointed in their direction. But it seemed unlikely that lowly police officers would have the political backing to engage on their own in sick serial murders and remain unpunished, even as a worldwide campaign mounted to protest the killings."
Guillermoprieto, Alma "The Murderers of Mexico" The New York Review of Books October 28 2010.
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Border Echoes – Lorena Mendez-Quiroga
"Border Echoes" - excerpt from Emily Koonse on Vimeo.
..."After weeks in Ciudad Juarez, Bender came to a disturbing conclusion: Chihuahua state police officers, the same public servants charged with solving the women’s murders, were likely behind numerous rapes and killings.
Bender based his hypothesis on conversations with Chihuahua state policemen who revealed to him sex parties attended by fellow officers. He heard how a couple parties were raided by Chihuahua state cops who did not know “their own people were there.” No legal action resulted against the policemen, Bender said, adding the sex parties could have been initiation rites for soldiers and policemen into the ranks of organized crime.
'You got to prove yourself to work for these people,” Bender contended. “So they have these wild parties and rape and kill a woman and then earn their keep in the cartel.' ”
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"Bender also left Ciudad Juarez with a bitter after-taste in his mouth. Looking back, he said the professional disarray he encountered was no accident, but a system of “chaos by design” to protect the criminally powerful."
Frank Bender forensic artist.
"Skulls and faces: Investigations and the pursuit of justice for women in Juarez"
Kent Paterson
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Señorita Extraviada – Lourdes Portillo (2001)
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Señorita Extraviada – Lourdes Portillo (2001)
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"Bordertown" builds a passionate and justified condemnation not just of the violence against women in the area, but uses this misleading statement of the facts to launch a more scattershot attack against NAFTA itself and the exploitation of Mexican labor that's been allowed to metastasize in its name. Result is neither convincing agitprop nor convincing political science, or even accurate reportage. Possible co-factors or causes of the real crime spree, such as rife drug-related criminality, domestic violence largely ignored by the authorities, and the possibility that at least some of the culprits may be U.S. citizens crossing the border to kill for kicks, are not explored here.
Leslie Felperin, Variety, February 2007
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