Justice Sought in Mexican Femicide Cover-Ups

“In the balmy winds of late March, a bare lawn at the New Mexico State University campus in Las Cruces was transformed into a field of hundreds of pink crosses. Adorned with handmade clothing and pictures to symbolize the murdered women of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, the crosses were put up by community members and organizers of the Las Cruces-based Friends of Juarez Women as a kickoff to the three-day J. Paul Taylor Symposium on Social Justice convened to promote justice for the more than 500 women and girls murdered or disappeared in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City since 1993.

The event came at a strategic crossroads in the justice movement: While the Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office (PJGE), long charged with investigating the killings, is paying more attention to murders related to domestic violence and assisting in efforts to locate some missing women and identify the remains of unidentified corpses, impunity reigns in the cases of scores of raped and slain women.”

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