What’s the protocol on posting tweets on Tumblr? Anyway, twitter user LuluLAngeles posted the above observation. I’ve been following a bot that retweets all Juarez posts (@JuarezAwareness), and this one caught my attention. What is our complicity in the events we lament?
Check out this article on Juarez and El Paso (also from LuluLAngeles).
El Paso, where Major Chevalier wants to find safe passage to in Dead Man’s Walk. El Paso is…what, contiguous with Juarez? We’ve talked about Juarez.
From Girish Gupta:
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico—On 6 January, the poet and activist Susana Chávez was found murdered outside an abandoned house in the city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Her left hand had been sawn off. In the late 1990s, Chávez coined the slogan “Ni una muerta más” (“Not one more death”) to protest against the incompetence of the Ciudad Juárez authorities in finding the killers of the hundreds of women who had been murdered there since 1993. The killings continue. The victims are usually from poor families. Before being murdered, they are raped and tortured, then their bodies are left in the desert surrounding what has become one of the world’s most violent cities.
Before it was dumped, Chávez’s body had been dragged 20 metres. A trail of blood led police to the missing hand and the murder site. Her parents identified the body of their daughter in a morgue after several days of searching. According to the local media, the authorities had attempted to conceal her identity, fearing public outrage and protests.
No one is certain of the motives for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez. Some say that the killings are a form of blood sport for the city’s elite, but there are also stories of satanic cults, snuff films and organ thieves looking for easy prey. Perfunctory investigations by the Mexican authorities have yielded nothing. The killers are not relenting.
This is still happening. It started in 1993. This article is from February of 2011. Not good. Increase awareness. Do the little things in your day-to-day that will put more good and less violence out in the world.
Monument to Benito Juarez, after whom Ciudad Juarez is named.
Benito Juárez with his sister Nela (left) and his wife Margarita (right), 1843
Monument to Juárez, Mexico City.
![Satellite picture of Ciudad Juarez.
The city lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), south of El Paso, Texas. It used to be known as El Paso del Norte and is sometimes called the Gateway of Mexico. El Paso and Ciudad Juárez comprise one of the largest bi-national metropolitan areas in the world with a combined population of 2.4 million people. Ciudad Juárez is one of the fastest growing cities in the world despite being called “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones.”[3]
If you look at this city on a map, it looks as if it’s right in the middle of the U.S.-Mexico border.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt60zwY1pc1ql3sxso1_400.jpg "Satellite picture of Ciudad Juarez.
The city lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), south of El Paso, Texas. It used to be known as El Paso del Norte and is sometimes called the Gateway of Mexico. El Paso and Ciudad Juárez comprise one of the largest bi-national metropolitan areas in the world with a combined population of 2.4 million people. Ciudad Juárez is one of the fastest growing cities in the world despite being called “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones.”[3]
If you look at this city on a map, it looks as if it’s right in the middle of the U.S.-Mexico border.")
Satellite picture of Ciudad Juarez.
The city lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), south of El Paso, Texas. It used to be known as El Paso del Norte and is sometimes called the Gateway of Mexico. El Paso and Ciudad Juárez comprise one of the largest bi-national metropolitan areas in the world with a combined population of 2.4 million people. Ciudad Juárez is one of the fastest growing cities in the world despite being called “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones.”[3] If you look at this city on a map, it looks as if it’s right in the middle of the U.S.-Mexico border.
CY TWOMBLY
- “When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
The second book bears the abstract work of Cy Twombly. The sparse, chaotic aesthetic of Twombly’s calligraphic scribbles speaks to 2666‘s most disturbing yet ambitious chapter, “The Part About the Crimes,” which details the unsolved murders of Ciudad Juárez (named Santa Teresa in the novel).
Pursue understanding. Deconstruct systems in order to taste building blocks. Happiness waits else/everywhere. And the heart(h). Do spheres not pull at each other?
Victoria Stoyanova
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