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For the last nine years, the city of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico has been the centre of an ongoing phenomenon of female homicides. As of February 2005 more than 370 bodies have been recovered, with over 400 women still missing, according to Amnesty International. The BBC News reported... read more

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  • “Sometimes, when you cross a shipment of drugs to the United States, adrenaline is so high that you want to celebrate by killing women.”
    unidentified Juarez criminal

First Sentence

In 1993, life in Juarez, Mexico, began to change for many young women.

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  1. Teresa Rodriguez (Author)
 

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