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Two Hundred and counting. Irma was closer to the Three hundred mark
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After six years and 200 slain girls and women, virtually none of the crimes, excluding those committed in domestic disputes, had been solved.
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Ciudad Juarez epitomized the promises of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which had helped create jobs for more than 1.2 million Mexicans - 250,000 in Ciudad Juarez - who churned out consumer products for the biggest name brands in the world.
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In attacking young women, the killer or killers were preying on victims furnished in part by the global economic forces so vital to Juarez's boom. The majority of the slain women worked outside the home.
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The next morning Ponce's office identified the most recent victim as Irma Angelica Rosales, age 13. In truth, on the day of her killing, Feb. 16, 1999, Irma was five months shy of her 13th birthday. As in so many of the cases that came before hers, age was not the only thing the authorities would get wrong.

THIS Article at the Washington Post

F, The above from your "Nightmare in a City of Dreams" link. It's a crying shame that we at FR "take from the post's 'hits'." when we post their articles in full! This story deserves WIDE distribution. So much for the truly "conservative" opinion that "NAFTA is a good thing." NAFTA is a destroyer of many things good. Peace and love, George.

I have one other one that really shows the misery, suffering, and corruption just on the other side of the US border (the 4th largest Mexican city) and how Americans are ignorant for the most part of what our leaders are trying to have an open border with. It seems Castaneda and Fox have more than enough work for them cut out in their own country and don't need to be looking at America's treatment of their people. They need to get to work fixing up that place.

Warning --very sad and gory

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, The Realities of Free Trade

Citizen Fox, he of the Land of Infinite Corruption, Drugs & Death-our President's 'good friend'. I learned Mr. Castenada is the son of a former Mexican Pres who nationalized US interests-I knew this had happened ( I thought twice ), & there is soo much to know about the Land to the South-but it is all bad. We are developing such close relations that we are bound to catch many of their political & societal diseases. ( wonder how long before some Bushie hits the panic button & I become one more of the dis-appeared? )