Ciudad Juarez: Tan Infinito Como El Desierto

A WRENCHING AND SERIAL PRESENTATION OF A VIOLENT REALITY OF FEMICIDE
I purchased this DVD for a friend from Juarez, and viewed some portion of its long series. Indeed, it plays like a television mini-series with several episodes presenting the horrifying fates of several young women, with a unifying theme of a peace-and-justice committee fighting for some action on behalf of the victimized women of Juarez. Not only does this series reveal the violent death of women who are kidnapped, tortured, violated and horribly murdered, but also the severe economic situation in which they are trapped, including working for slave wages in the international sweatshops called maquilas, where they are not only subject to extremely poor salaries with few benefits, but also prey to managers and overseers, released at all hours of the night onto the street to find some way home in a dangerous city.

This series also reveals the inability of the law enforcement organizations to do anything for these several victims of femicide, either through official incapacity...

Women of Ciudad Juarez: Tan Infinito Como El Desierto
The video shows 5 short stories that depict the possible causes behind the dissapearance and murder of women in Juarez. The cases/stories shown are definitely good examples of the violence that all the women in Juarez have to deal with.



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