"(Borderwown) wants to be a thriller, a piece of investigative journalism, a political soapbox and a vehicle for Jennifer Lopez. It serves none of these masters well. There also is something disingenuous about a movie that claims that the media on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are too afraid or corrupt to expose the hundreds of rapes and murders of Latina factory workers in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico…Good thing a Latino made this movie, though: A white director would stand accused of the worst sort of stereotypes about Mexican males, rich or poor.”
Not everyone is a critic of “Bordertown”: human rights group Amnesty International awarded Lopez for her leading role in the movie.
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Links- Monsters & Critics, All Headline News, Reuters, VivirLatino
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Super weird. One of the U.S. border journalists, Diana Washington Valdez, was not afraid and published an investigative book called Harvest of Women about the Juarez murders and the drug cartel. She is in El Paso, Texas, not in "Chicago" like the movie character.
It's probably best to read Harvest of Women regardless of how good/bad the film is.
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