The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border

by Diana Montane, Teresa Rodríguez, Diana Montan, et al.

Book Overview

For more than twelve years, the city of Ju rez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime wave against women and girls. Consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, most of the atrocities have involved young, slender, and poor victims -- fueling the premise that the murders are not random. As for who is behind the crimes themselves, the answer remains unknown -- though many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743292049
• ISBN13: 9780743292047
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Magnífico e interesante

Nunca me imaginé que esto estuviera sucediendo en Ciudad Juárez y que según muchos estadounidenses persiguen y discriminan a los mejicanos así mismo deben hacer para así poder dar con los criminales que estan causando tanto dolor a muchas familias

Las hijas de Juarez

A lo largo de todo el libro, la autora trata muy bien la problematica de ciudad Juarez. Un libro muy interesante.

Daughters of Juarez

I live in El Paso and have followed much of this in the newspaper including the two Bus drivers, The FBI coming to help, etc. Now I know it was all lies. Mexico has been called the most corrupt nation on earth and I've heard the stories and now I see it in action. I have too many chilling stories direct from American victims of the Juarez Police to share here. This corruption has spread to El Paso with corruption in the Border Patrol, the government, the police and I'm not just saying this, I've talked to people and have examples both from the Newspaper and people in the know. The FBI has been conducting an investigation into the El Paso government for several months and people are going to jail. Halleluiah! Personally I've been afraid to go across the Border for years based on these stories and now I'll be spreading the word. Do not go into Mexico! This book hits hard with details that would make a strong man cry. The horrible end to young lives, the Police laughing at parents asking for help and the intimidating of helpless mothers who might "know too much", the framing of innocents, The corruption of "investigations" run by incompetents. This book is an indictment, a denunciation of a government and society gone terribly wrong. Bribes are necessary just to get your TV cable hooked up and this pattern of behavior climbs to the very top. I hope this book helps but in a society that accepts incompetence and corruption as a given I have my doubts. If Mexico is to change it must come from the bottom and it is so instilled in the poverty stricken common people to not make waves how can we expect them to effectively rise up. But enough publicity might send the rats scurrying, we need more books and TV exposes like this.

Femicide in Mexico

This is a true crime book that is hard to put down; it is chilling. I'm not one to usually read books about murders but this one I couldn't resist. Besides, I have spent time along the El Paso / Ciudad Juarez frontier and I had to get the facts right since I am familiar with some of the details over the years through friends and family who live in El Paso. After hearing rumors and rumblings over the past ten plus years I decided to get it straight. Teresa Rodriguez is a fine journalist from Univision whose credentials speak volumes to her integrity so I was drawn to her version according to her investigative reporting. The book is shocking in regard to some of details of the cases and even more shocking when it comes to the Mexican governments investigation, and ineptitude, of the well over 300 murders(more than 400 bodies recovered and hundreds missing) since 1995 of women along the border, in Ciudad Juarez(it has actually spread to Chihuahua City), usually young women who were either students or maquiladora workers. Journalist and author Teresa Rodriquez, does an outstanding job relating and presenting the gruesome realities to light in a chronlogical manner that is woven with contemporary political highlights, local color, geography and history lessons. The author does a fine job of bringing to life the now dead women as she recounts the victims last days, literally step by step before falling prey to the killer or killers. She also sheds light on the victims familiies struggles to find justice and the many stumbling blocks encountered in their pursuit of justice. There are black and white pictures of the victims, families and major players half way through the book that brings everything into reality and ties everything together; a face to go with a name makes it all the more real and tragic. Many of the stories of the victims families are too tragic for words to convey. The people who have been tried and convicted for the murders seem to be nothing more than scapegoats. The theories as to who is responsible and why the murders are taking place are numerous. Read for yourself and see what you think. The mystery of who is behind the murders, and who was blamed for the murders still leaves lots of question marks that all seem to lead to the corrupt state police officials. Several brave people who tried to find justice instead found an early death at the hands of hit squads or assasins. After reading this book you will just shake your head in disbelief and disgust. This is a true crime with many answers but more questions as to the credibilty of the answers. Somewhere along the southwest desert a coyote howls and a pack is on the loose, a killer or killers are still on the hunt, picking their prey at will as potential victims go to work or school not knowing if they will be another statistic in the border femicide , to be raped, tortured, mutilated and left discarded for the coyote and the desert animals to feast on their remains; meanwhile the

Voices With No Cry

This book is amazingly chilling!!!! It is a must read for those who are intrigued by social justice. This book is an eye opener to the oppression just south of our border. As an educator I believe it is vital to be aware of the many social injustices occurring worldwide; for this is what will endow us with a multicultural acceptance that we shall pass on to our students. I could not put his book down; it was filled with explicit details of the murders of the now 300+ young females in Ciudad Juarez. Women are blamed for their murders and the government is quick to find scapegoats for the ongoing murders of these adolescent females. I was extremely astonished as I learned about the tactics used by the judicial system in Juarez, it is all corrupt.