* Mexico: The Los Angeles Times examines the mysterious murders and disappearances of hundreds of girls and young women from the border city of Ciudad Juarez.* Haiti: Officials and activists denounced the alleged abandonment of disabled children due to a growing birth rate and undue stigmatization.
* Cuba: Portugal becomes the latest country to accept prisoners (in this case, a pair of Syrians) from the detention center at Guantanamo.
* Brazil: Three athletes who were training for next week’s world track championships received two-year bans after testing positive for banned drugs.
Image- daylife.com (“Women walk past a cross in Ciudad Juarez April 10, 2008, put up in memory of women murdered in the city since 1993.”)
Online Sources- Los Angeles Times, AFP, UPI, CBC
"THOUSANDS" of disappearances? No... hundreds of murders and disappearances) over the last decade and a half (which may be normal for a community much younger and less settled than most communities of its size). Troubling, yes. But nowhere near as sensationalist as U.S. sources would make us believe... and by no means involving "thousands" of women.
ReplyDeleteActually, I misread the article and mistakenly wrote "thousands" . (In 2005, Amnesty International placed the figure of female deaths at about 400 with neatly 100 disappeared)
ReplyDeleteI apologize for the error, though the femicides and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juarez continues to be a serious human rights problem in that area.