The City of Dead Girls

It really is such a shame to see almost 400 young girls being raped, tortured, and killed the way they did, with no "justicia" to follow. I personally believe that their claim of having solved many of the cases is false. When the female reporter interviewed the head police investigator, you could easily tell he was lying: his eyes were moving from side to side, he stuttered quite often, he was getting uncomfortable and even made a "slick" attempt to try to end the interview. According to human rights organizations, Ciudad Juarez is known for its out-of-control drug trade and police involvement, which could explain the corruption and lack of careful investigation by the police officers. Why is it that a majority of the victims are Maquiladora workers coming from poor families? They seem to be easier targets: working 48-60 hours a week, they come home a lot later than others (hardly anyone is on the streets at that time) and being extremely worn out from a long day's work, it's harder for them to fight back with little energy. They say that no crime is perfect, so I would think that after almost 400 crimes being conducted by the same person (or group), as was concluded in the documentary, there would be some physical evidence to track down the serial killers. It sounds quite impossible to do 400 killings and not leave one strand of evidence behind, wouldn't you think?

The first step is to fix the source of the problem: government corruption. It's not justice if you're placing the wrong person/people in jail. Unfortunately, this type of problem isn't just present in Ciudad Juarez, but also in other regions of the world. Could this type of problem be the result of poverty and a country's economy?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/09/juarez/