Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on …
The author describes the normalized barbarism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Rodriguez gives information about the city Ciudad Juárez and the femicide machine: an apparatus that guaranteed impunity for crimes against women and little girls and the legalization of these crimes.