Book Talk

The Daughters of Juarez by Maria Theresa Rodriguez

The Daughters of Juarez is a non-fiction book that talks about the violence towards women occuring in the border between Mexico and the USA in the small city of Juarez.  Many women are tortured, raped, killed, then abandoned in a desserted area in Juarez by a serial killer.  The women killed have the similar characteristics, black long hair, full lips, ages ten to late twenties and all were last seen at their job that requires packaging. The issue about all these women killed is that they are not receiving any justice by the police of Juarez.  Everytime a girl in Juarez dissappered and then appear dead and tortured the police insists that those women were living a double life selling their bodies for profit or ran away with the boyfriend. Mothers of these women know that is not the case because they know their daughters well enough and many women are being killed maybe twice a week and the police still insists that they are all living a double life. 

People who are trying to help and actually solve the case and have justice for those who are dead are always bribed to put evidence in the cadavers that may blame someone or make the murder seem like an accident, if not willing to do so they are threatened to death and others end up with no family because some are being killed.  Those who are the alleged murders have nothing in common with the victim and the evidence shows that they were not the killers but still the police insists that they have the murderes in jail while there still others murders occuring on the outside.  When the bodies are found the police "accidently" contaminates the evidence and that is one of the reasons why forensics cant find the real murderer. Many conclusions have came from those who were trying to help but then threatened that the murderer is not one person but many and that the person protecting them comes from a high rank position that controlls the justice of Juarez. 

MY OPINION
This book was really interesting because I always wondered what happened or killed these women everytime I saw what was going on, on the news.  This book is scary but it opens your eyes on all the injustice that is occuring in Juarez and all the things that bad people are capable of doing.  I do recommend this book because it makes you understand and have a look of what is going on in the other countries other than the USA and how bad it is for people living there especially women having insecurities everytime they walk alone, thinking everyday if they are going  to be killed or not.