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Violence against women. More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1][2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
Nov 13, 2023 · Murders top 1,000 in Juárez in 2023. The death of a cartel member's girlfriend has sparked a bloody gang war in Juárez that has left dozens dead amid retaliatory violence this month,...
- Daniel Borunda
- Crime Reporter
Dec 2, 2022 · English. «Oasis of horror»: In the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, women and girls have been dying and disappearing for the past 30 years. Thirty years ago, the bodies of two girls were...
Jan 30, 2002 · Last November the 1.3 million residents of Juarez got a brutal reminder of the killings when police discovered eight more bodies near a busy intersection two miles from the city center. Four of the bodies were found in a cotton field and four in a nearby ditch.
Jun 23, 2022 · Once named the murder capital of the world, Juarez, Mexico, has seen 400 murders so far in 2022, as drug violence sweeps the troubled border city again, according to local reports.
Jul 1, 2024 · The murders of women and girls in Juárez have fluctuated in intensity over the past three decades, but never stopped.
From 2008 to 2012, the city of 1.3 million people was widely deemed the most dangerous place on Earth. Murders shot above 3,700 in the worst year. Criminals kidnapped and extorted with impunity.
