Author: Alicia Gaspar de AlbaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused women
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Maquiladora Murders, Or, Who is Killing the Women of Juárez, Mexico?
Author: Alicia Gaspar de AlbaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused women
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Maquiladora Murders
Author: Judy LongPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977507860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Maquiladora Murders is set in the context of a real-life horror that has convulsed the Mexico/Texas borderland for a generation. The tumultuous modernization of the region provides the setting for a young woman's journey from village life to city life. In Juarez Guadalupe finds a wholesale murder of young women that implicates a monstrous conspiracy stretching from the hinterland to Mexico 's capital city. Guadalupe is inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose name she bears, as a sense of her mission develops. Guadalupe finds dangers and allies in her search for answers as women disappear around her. Colorful and delightful characters-not all of them mortal-- join Guadalupe in her quest. La Llorona, the legendary grieving mother whose children were taken from her, now haunts Juarez -and Guadalupe. Local activists, international journalists and forensic experts press for action. Fearless, Guadalupe takes action, a cloud of female energy gathering around her.
The "maquiladora Murders" of Ciudad Juarez
Author: Elizabeth GonzálezDesert Blood
Author: Alicia Gaspar de AlbaPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juárez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos of abuse and murder. Even as the rapes and killings of "girls from the south" continue, their tragic stories written in desert blood, a conspiracy covers up the crimes that implicate everyone from the Maquiladora Association to the Border Patrol. When Ivon's younger sister gets kidnapped in Juárez, Ivon knows that it's up to her to find her sister, whatever it takes. Despite the sharp warnings she gets from family, friends, and nervous officials, Ivon's investigation moves her deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of silence. From acclaimed poet and prose-writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood is a gripping thriller that ponders the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis.
The Daughters of Juarez
Author: Teresa RodriguezPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416538895
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that the murders are not random. Indeed, there has been much speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens. While some leading members of the American media have reported on the situation, prompting the U.S. government to send in top criminal profilers from the FBI, little real information about this international atrocity has emerged. According to Amnesty International, as of 2006 more than 400 bodies have been recovered, with hundreds still missing. As for who is behind the murders themselves, the answer remains unknown, although many have argued that the killings have become a sort of blood sport, due to the lawlessness of the city itself. Among the theories being considered are illegal trafficking in human organs, ritualistic satanic sacrifices, copycat killers, and a conspiracy between members of the powerful Juárez drug cartel and some corrupt Mexican officials who have turned a blind eye to the felonies, all the while lining their pockets with money drenched in blood. Despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians. The Daughters of Juárez promises to be the first eye-opening, authoritative nonfiction work of its kind to examine the brutal killings and draw attention to these atrocities on the border. The end result will shock readers and become required reading on the subject for years to come.
The Maquiladora Murders
Author: Sydnie GoodellPublisher: Treble Heart
ISBN: 9781931742337
Category : Cochise County (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mystery surrounding Southwestern Border murders.
野依秀市
Author: Sociocultural Consequences of Free Trade
Author: Elvia R ArriolaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Claudia Ivette-González might still be alive if her employers had not turned her away. The 20-year-old resident of Ciudad Juárez - the Mexican city abutting El Paso, Texas - arrived at her assembly plant job four minutes late one day in October 2001. After management refused to let her into the factory, she started home on foot. A month later, her corpse was discovered buried in a field near a busy Juárez intersection. Next to her lay the bodies of seven other young women. [FN2] The “maquiladora murders” have become a popular subject for writing and activism by feminists, as well as the inspiration for numerous forms of art, [FN3] literary fiction [FN4] and commentaries, [FN5] international conferences, [FN6] movies, [FN7] and marches [FN8] on both sides of the border. A 2004 conference held at the University of California-Los Angeles entitled “Maquiladora Murders” [FN9] drew worldwide attention [FN10] to the cases of hundreds of young Mexican women who worked in maquiladoras - American-owned transnational factories - and met untimely, often brutal deaths. Who killed them is still a mystery. [FN11] What is not a mystery is that incidents of domestic violence and femicide [FN12] in Ciudad Juárez [FN13] have risen in the wake of heavy industrialization along the border; that industrialization was a result of the signing of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
If I Die in Ju‡rez
Author: Stella Pope DuartePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816526673
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Duarte's latest novel is based on a string of real-life murders in Ciudad Jurez in the 1990s. Forced out of the house by her alcoholic mother, 13-year-old Evita takes to the streets, glimpsing newspaper columns about the murders, while struggling to survive. Petra, Evita's comely 19-year-old cousin, exchanges the country life for gritty Jurez to raise money for her ailing father. An acquaintance of Petra, Mayela, a 12-year-old Tarahumara Indian, lives in an orphanage where her artistic talent is discovered.
The Femicide Machine
Author: Sergio Gonzalez RodriguezPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1584351101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
An account and analysis of the systematic murder of women and girls in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves. —from The Femicide Machine Best known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano's 2666 and as a literary detective in Javier Marías's novel Dark Back of Time, Sergio González Rodríguez is one of Mexico's most important contemporary writers. He is the author of Bones in the Desert, the most definitive work on the murders of women and girls in Juárez, Mexico, as well as The Headless Man, a sharp meditation on the recurrent uses of symbolic violence; Infectious, a novel; and Original Evil, a long essay. The Femicide Machine is the first book by González Rodríguez to appear in English translation. Written especially for Semiotext(e) Intervention series, The Femicide Machine synthesizes González Rodríguez's documentation of the Juárez crimes, his analysis of the unique urban conditions in which they take place, and a discussion of the terror techniques of narco-warfare that have spread to both sides of the border. The result is a gripping polemic. The Femicide Machine probes the anarchic confluence of global capital with corrupt national politics and displaced, transient labor, and introduces the work of one of Mexico's most eminent writers to American readers.