And in Vicente Fox's eyes, young girls' lives can just be snuffed out. Not much a crime in his mind which is why he has done nothing about the situation in Ciudad Juarez.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/borderdeath/
Murder in Juárez
More than 320 girls and women have been killed in Juárez in the past nine years. Mexican and U.S. criminologists speculate that as many as 90 of those were victims of one or more serial killers.
Rodriguez
The serial victims bore similar traits. They were young and slender and had brown complexions and long hair. All came from poor families, and many were lured to Juárez by job prospects at maquiladoras. Their poverty, experts say, made them vulnerable.
Many of them were raped and mutilated, their bodies dumped in ditches or vacant lots.
And some more recent murders:
http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/
December 8, 2004
Ciudad Juárez Femicides: More Deaths and Law Enforcement Officials Investigated
Cinthia Irasema Ramos' dream was to become a nurse, her father said at her funeral. Found dead on a sidewalk in central Ciudad Juárez on December 3, 2004, the 21 year old woman's life was cut short near the bar where she worked. Police have yet to make an arrest in the case although family member's believe Ramos' boyfriend may have been involved.
On November 2, 2004, Martha Lizbeth Hernández, age 16, was murdered and raped . José Luis Montes, a carpenter, confessed to the crimes saying that he was drunk and had been using cocaine prior to killing Hernández.
Montes was spotted by city police while allegedly raping Hernández who he had apparently already choked to death. He tried to flee the scene but was apprehended by police.
In between these killings another body was found on November 25 in the outskirts of Cd. Juárez, according to an article in the Dallas Morning News.
Law Enforcement Investigated
The federal investigation of the Cd. Juárez femicides led by María López Urbina has been criticized as "garbage" by organizations that represent victims' families, particularly because the investigation has not led to any new arrests. However, another part of the investigation is aimed at identifying state law enforcement officials that were negligent in properly investigating the crimes. One of those Chihuahua officials named by López's investigation is Zulema Bolívar García who was the special investigator into the femicides between July 2001 and March 2002.
In mid-November 2004 Bolívar testified to López's investigation that in November 2001 it was the Chihuahua Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General at that time, Arturo González Rascón and José Manuel Ortega Aceves, that steered her investigation of the eight bodies that were found in a Cd. Juárez cotton field in that month. Bolívar also stated that it was Ortega Aceves who framed two bus drivers for the crime, Javier García Uribe and Gustavo González Meza.
And of course the today's killing of a young woman:
http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.asp?notaid=fb546f8fc47d68b7c93c728001da6bb3
Armando Rodríguez
EL DIARIO
La madrugada de este viernes nuevamente fue encontrada otra mujer asesinada, aparentemente a puñaladas y abandonada en el interior de su domicilio por varios días antes de que alguien se diera cuenta de su estado.
El macabro hallazgo tuvo lugar a las tres de la mañana de este viernes, cuando varias compañeras de trabajo acudieron a buscar a Flor Fabiola Ferrer Trujillo, de 19 años, quien laboraba junto a ellas como mesera en el bar Chapulín Colorado, lugar al que tenía días de no acudir.
El cuerpo de la hoy occisa se encontró en su domicilio de la calle Rafael Torres Quintero 6117, en el Infonavit Casas Grandes y aunque en un principio se creyó que Fabiola habeia fallecido por intoxicación con monóxido de carbono, ya que el calentón se encontraba encendido y no respondía al llamado de sus compañeras, las autoridades confirmaron horas después que se trato de un homicidio.
Al lugar acudieron autoridades pertenecientes a las tres esferas de gobierno, pero poco fue lo que se dispusieron a revelar del nuevo crimen.
Extraoficialmente una fuente informó que la mujer murió por haber sido atacada con un objeto punzocortante, aunque no se especificaron más detalles en cuanto al tipo de arma, número de laceraciones o el móvil del delito.
Con este son ya dos los cuerpos de mujeres asesinadas que se encuentran en menos de una semana, y, coincidentemente, las dos occisas laboraban en bares de la ciudad.
----- It's a bit interesting that Vicente Fox shows far more concern for those Mexicans in the death penalty here than he shows for all the murdered women and girls in his own country. He's shown no concern at all of course.
If the Court rules that we should follow "international law" then we will know all the papers, the US Constitution,the State Constitutions, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Code, the UCMJ, you name it have all been tossed in the shredder and we are living under the United Nations Charter.
Annan in historic meeting with Supreme Court &Congress/is believed to be unprecedented.
Vicente Fox shows far more concern for those Mexicans who come to America to commit crimes than he does for the ones who live in Mexico.