Response
This video makes me want to pull my hair and scream. It is so frustrating to me that a country so close to ours and a country acting as the site of our production lines can have such abominable problems. How is it that all these murders happen so close to our own home yet go seemingly unnoticed? Why is it that the Mexican government chooses to ignore these murders rather than figure out the causes? It is the most backward way of thought for me and something very hard to grasp.
We are raised in a society that teaches values and right from wrong. I assume Mexico is not so different. However, you take a look at Juarez and see a city riddled with crime and murder. It is like one of the interviewee’s said – these girls deserve better than to be raped, murdered and tortured on their way home from work. The fact that the Mexican authorities repeatedly ignore these murders or pass the blame onto lower women of our society makes me wonder if they really do know who is doing it and simply get kickbacks. Juarez police will not arrest the culprits as long as they pay them off. This does not even seem out of the question at this point. Are there even any immediate possibilities for solutions other than activism and spreading the word?
