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Las Hijas de Juarez (Daughters of Juarez): Un autico relato de asesinatos en serie al sur de la frontera
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, queda en la frontera sur del Rio Bravo, frente a El Paso, Texas. Por mas de doce anos, aqui se ha llevado a cabo un sinnumero de crimenes atroces contra mujeres y ninas que incluyen secuestros, violaciones, mutilaciones y asesinatos. Segun Amnistia Internacional, para 2006, se habian encontrado mas de 400 cadaveres, sin contar centenares de desaparec...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
August 25th 2009
by Atria
(first published 2007)
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i went to juarez this past february with charles. easily the scariest and most tragic place I’ve ever been. we met a local and paid him to show us the city. here’s some of what we saw:
- whole parts of town in which ‘houses’ were mere bits of cardboard, wood, and corrugated tin held together by found nails and bottlecaps.
- tanks and guys with AK47s outside police stations: in the first 5 weeks of 2008 the juarez drug cartel had already killed 22 cops, so the army was call...more
- whole parts of town in which ‘houses’ were mere bits of cardboard, wood, and corrugated tin held together by found nails and bottlecaps.
- tanks and guys with AK47s outside police stations: in the first 5 weeks of 2008 the juarez drug cartel had already killed 22 cops, so the army was call...more
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The Daughters of Juarez, by Teresa Rodriguez (with Diana Montané and Lisa Pulitzer), chronicles a series of horrific murders of young women (and teens) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the last fourteen years, the law enforcement/governmental response to them, and the myriad theories as to the perpetrator(s). Over this period, a good part of 400 poor women were raped, tortured and killed, then dumped in desert areas and vacant lots around the city. The book details a rich tapestry of police and ...more
I just finished Daughters of Juarez, by Teresa Rodriguez, which I didn’t want to read and didn’t want to like. I can’t really say I liked it, and it isn’t particularly well-written or easy to read, but it is an eye-opener about something that we, educated individuals with resources, take for granted, human rights, and which is almost nonexistent for the poor, disenfranchised individuals in any country, but particularly in countries where poverty is pervasive. I finished it feeling like an Ostri...more
A very intense and infuriating book. I couldn't help but feel disbelief at the all the corruption in Mexico on all levels of the government: municipal, state, and federal. Since the killings in 1993, over 430 women have been raped, tortured, and murdered in the city of Juarez. Many of these women, found strewn all around the city's deserts and even some within the city, were poor women who worked at maquiladoras (mostly U.S factories) for extremely low wages. Their devotion to their jobs was ext...more
Over the past fifteen years, the bodies of over four hundred women have been found in and around Ciudad Juarez in Mexico (across the Rio Grande from El Paso, TX). They had been raped, tortured, mutilated, dismembered. This book, mostly written by a reporter from Univision, the Spanish-language network, recounts the various developments (or lack thereof) in the quest to find out who is behind the massacre. It's a real-life farce that would be funny if it weren't happening to real women. Nearl...more
I felt absolutely powerless as I read this book in the park--where I had a clear view of La Ciudad Juarez from the bench. The things that were most shocking were not the murders, as the commentary on the government and culture of a country that shares so much with our own. It is absolutely horrifying that the attitudes towards women and crimes against women that exist in Mexico do so in this day and age.
The main complaint that I have heard about this book was that the writing style...more
The main complaint that I have heard about this book was that the writing style...more
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This book is chronology of the events that happened in Ciadad Juarez, Mexico, from 1993 until now. A killer or killers have been terrorizing this large, impoverished, hard-working community. Between 1993 and today, there have been over 300 murders of children, teenage, and young-adult women. The bodies have been carelessly dumped, with signs of torture, rape, and mutilation. The Mexican community is outraged that the government doesn't have the requisite police force, or the man power to launch ...more
A pressing human rights issue is occurring in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Young women, many of them indigent factory workers, are being killed in a serial murder fashion, their bodies dumped in the desert.
The level of corruption and incompetence in the official response to the murders will take your breath away. Rodriguez leaves readers with little doubt that the police, and possibly other government officials, have a hand in the reign of terror. Crime scenes are contaminated, crucial e...more
The level of corruption and incompetence in the official response to the murders will take your breath away. Rodriguez leaves readers with little doubt that the police, and possibly other government officials, have a hand in the reign of terror. Crime scenes are contaminated, crucial e...more
Although I'm giving this book 3 stars, I couldn't put it down, and read it in 3 days while on vacation in Oaxaca.
Written by Mexican TV journalist Teresa Rodriguez, this non-fiction book makes the sickening but convincing argument that the Mexican government has been aiding and abetting, through incompetence and outright institutionalized sexism, the unknown killers who have kidnapped and brutally murdered over 400 girls and women in Ciudad Juarez.
I found the prose wooden ...more
Written by Mexican TV journalist Teresa Rodriguez, this non-fiction book makes the sickening but convincing argument that the Mexican government has been aiding and abetting, through incompetence and outright institutionalized sexism, the unknown killers who have kidnapped and brutally murdered over 400 girls and women in Ciudad Juarez.
I found the prose wooden ...more
This is between a 3-4 for me. There is sensationalist writing, peppered with cliche, which I find off putting. I disagree with some reviewers that there are overwhelming organizational problems. It seems to me that the organization of the book might have been quite calculated to speak to a reader, quite profoundly, whether she reads one chapter, three or the entire book. It's a difficult book, frequently quite gruesome--but a terribly important witness to all the women killed in Juarez (Chihuah...more
Amazing. A very engaging crime story, while sickeningly real. I was always interested in the femicides that have been taking place in Ciudad Juarez, but I knew very little about them. This book is a great introduction.
I tore through this book in just a few days - it was simultaneously compelling and horrifying to read of the unfolding of several hundreds of women who have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez and the widespread institutional failures that will continue to leave many of these cases unsolved. It will leave you feeling shocked, sad, frustrated and angry. My heart goes out to the families who have had to face these gruesome tragedies and will always live with unanswered questions. It definitely moved to...more
Great book. Shows frustration that the family of these victims go through with the justice system. Great read!!!
I wanted a great deal more from this, especially in terms of research and documentation. While anything that brings this ongoing femicide to international awareness is laudable, this book felt topical in the manner of an A&E hour-long special on the Manson Family.
If the purpose was to give general information and incite people to action, the book should have included a list of places to contact for the reader to obtain more information and get involved in doing something.
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If the purpose was to give general information and incite people to action, the book should have included a list of places to contact for the reader to obtain more information and get involved in doing something.
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Well, after reading this I never want to visit Juarez Mexico. This is pretty depressing. The that people that effected are helpless and the people that could help seem uninterested. Unlike other true crime books, there isn't a concrete villain or villains, just a lot of speculation and a lot of dead girls. Conditions that people live in this part of \ Mexico seem shocking, but I'm living in Bangkok Thailand right now, there seems to be many similarities. Perhaps what is shocking is so many North...more
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"The Daughters of Juarez" is a heart-breaking and truly eye-opening expose of literally hundreds of serial murders of innocent girls and women, just south of the United States - Mexico border. As a reader, I was surprised and shocked to realize that I had heard little to nothing about these murders, despite their proximity to my home in the southwestern United States.
I highly recommend this book to all readers; though I do not know what we can...more
"The Daughters of Juarez" is a heart-breaking and truly eye-opening expose of literally hundreds of serial murders of innocent girls and women, just south of the United States - Mexico border. As a reader, I was surprised and shocked to realize that I had heard little to nothing about these murders, despite their proximity to my home in the southwestern United States.
I highly recommend this book to all readers; though I do not know what we can...more
What did I learn from this book? Don't go to Juarez. :P
This is a book about the series of murders in and around Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso. For the last ten or so years, women have been murdered in disturbing numbers. The victims are usually poor, young, or working at night in the factories in the city. No one has ever figured out why, or who, and the one guy that's ever actually been convicted of any of these murders probably didn't do it.
The auth...more
This is a book about the series of murders in and around Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso. For the last ten or so years, women have been murdered in disturbing numbers. The victims are usually poor, young, or working at night in the factories in the city. No one has ever figured out why, or who, and the one guy that's ever actually been convicted of any of these murders probably didn't do it.
The auth...more
The author did a very good investigative work, when it came to tell the heartbreaking count of the femicides that have been happening in ciudad juarez for more than ten years. She remained objective, and she portrays a harsh, cruel, corrupt reality not only of the judicial system in mexico, but of its law enforcement agencies and the lack of investigation. However i did come across a few historical and law related innacuracies. Overall good book, easy to read. I reccommend it.
Hard to comprehend the police's...incompetence...corruption...whatever.
Juarez, Mexico has serious crime and drug issues. It has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The Daughters of Juarez focuses on one portion of the crime in the area: the unsolved killings of young women. Over the years hundreds of women have been killed. Many of them have been raped and mutilated.
After I read the book, I felt stunned. How in the world is the government and police so corrupt that ...more
Juarez, Mexico has serious crime and drug issues. It has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The Daughters of Juarez focuses on one portion of the crime in the area: the unsolved killings of young women. Over the years hundreds of women have been killed. Many of them have been raped and mutilated.
After I read the book, I felt stunned. How in the world is the government and police so corrupt that ...more
OH MY GOODNESS, this is a shocking tale of murder and corruption just south of the border in the city of Juarez, Mexico. Since 1993 there have been countless documentaries, news articles, and many investigations including by the U.S. done but, the brutal rape and murder of hundreds of poor young mexican women continue still. You will be outraged when you read this book!
A sad account of the murders, as yet unsolved, of hundreds of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Not very well written but it seems some kind of memorial to read the names of these girls, at least. It is hard to imagine living in a place where your daughter could be murdered, along with scores of others, and nobody does anything about it. Sad, sad. And still going on.
Wow. Eye opening, very tragic. Makes me incredibly thankful for my home, neighborhood, U.S. government and police force. What is really crazy is that all the murders and corruption happened not long ago, and in reality are continuing right now. I commend the courageous individuals who are fighting for human rights in Juarez and El Paso.
How very sad that at the end of the day so much engery was spent in perpetuating lies about the many scapaegoats, and no realy time and energy on getting justice for the families of these gilrs. Never can I imagine the pain these familes have lived through. They will continue to be in my heart.
After reading '2666' I had wanted to read something non-fictional about the crimes in Juarez and happily my local library had this on the shelf.
I described Roberto Bolaño's fictional account as a litany of death that shocked me to the core. This is a cooler and more measured account focusing mainly on the victims and their families. It was shocking in a different way and much of that was linked to the disinterest exhibited by the police and other authorities over these deaths.
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I described Roberto Bolaño's fictional account as a litany of death that shocked me to the core. This is a cooler and more measured account focusing mainly on the victims and their families. It was shocking in a different way and much of that was linked to the disinterest exhibited by the police and other authorities over these deaths.
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Non-fiction book about hundreds of women who are brutally murdered. The tragic parts of the book are not only the deaths of these women but the justice system which is supposed to protect them. This poor Mexican town borders the United States and shows what can happen with a corrupt judicial system.
I don't remember what made me interested in reading this nonfiction book, but I'm glad I did. It's about Juarez, the border town in Mexico, where hundreds of young girls have gone missing and hundreds have been found dead. It gives you a look at exactly what the cost of America's demand for drugs and cheap labor is. In Juarez the maquilladoras, (or assembly-line factories) that are built by U.S. companies employ thousands of workers who come from all over Mexico. Most of these workers are young ...more
This book really sheds light on the horrific events that are still happening in Ciudad Juarez today and the lack of assistance provided by the authorities. It gives a face to those poor young girls and their families who seek justice for the crimes comitted againts them.
This is a very serious book it really makes you wonder if you are ever as safe as you think you are its a really good book to read if you want to know about what is going on in other places its a very touching book and makes you want to cry for the poor mothers in the book
Who would have thought that just south of the border there lives so much evil. And to have it continue more than a decade than it start, it's just as bad. We are no better than those men murdering those women because we just stand by and do nothing. Shameful.
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