6/7 : Ciudad Juárez
2007
Since 1993, close to 400 women were murdered in monstrous conditions in Ciudad Juárez.
Fourth city of Mexico and counting 1.5 million inhabitants, Juárez is located at the American-Mexican borderline. This is the stronghold of one of the most important Latin American drug turntables, and the world’s most passed through border points.
Juarez accommodates hundreds of thousands of workers, employed in 250 maquiladoras, located along the desert’s borderline. These North American, Asian and European relocated assembly plants attract workers coming from all around Mexico. 80% of the population comes from inland. Most of these migrants are young, unqualified women, who are desperate for work and stacked up in slums on the city’s outskirts.
More than 10 years after the first victim’s murder, discovered in the desert between the United States and Mexico, the authorities still cannot set out those responsible for the massacre, or give a convincing explanation for the tragedy.