I like to watch the news and try to keep up with everything that’s happening in the world today. I try to focus mostly on the positive things, but there are some  negative things happening that you just can’t ignore. Recently I watched the Mexican movie “El Traspatio/The Backyard”. The movie is about the women that were and are being kidnapped, raped and killed since the mid nineties in the city Juarez of Mexico. As if that were enough, every day people (mostly gang members) are being killed because of the drug wars between the cartels.

The reason I want to write about this city is because there’s too much going on and too little being done about it. President Felipe Calderon recently declared that they’ll work hard to find a solution to violence in the city of Juarez. Since 2006 after President Felipe Calderon took office, more than 17,000 Mexicans were killed after he declared war to the cartels. This year alone up and till now about 1,000 people were killed already (cartels related murders) throughout the country and more than half are from Juarez. To make matters worse, two weeks ago, 15 people mainly teenagers that had nothing to do with the cartels, were massacred at a house party in Juarez.

Juarez city, at this time is the deadliest city for women. The numbers aren’t accurate, but the media believe that more than 4,000 women were killed in the last decade. Juarez authorities are still finding bodies in the desert buried. In the movie “El Traspatio” they portrait the people responsible for the murders as misogynist serial killers but in reality experts believe that only some of the murders were being committed by the serial killers (they believe that are two of them working together). After years of these murders, they believe that a considerable portion of the murders might be connected to the human trafficking gangs as well.

In this instant in Juarez, a woman might be in the process of being killed and the drug cartel gangs shooting at each other in a fight that most likely will end fatally.

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