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The Daughters of Juárez not only investigates, with facts and information, but illuminates how innocence and purity are sacrificed almost daily on this desert altar. Teresa Rodriguez’s book can make a difference only if you and I get involved to assure that this will never happen again to anyone."
Carlos Santana
Nearly four hundred young women have been viciously mutilated and murdered just south of the U.S./Mexican border, while countless more remain missing. Now comes the first, authoritative nonfiction account to investigate the brutal, ongoing slaughter in…
THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
by Teresa Rodriguez Diane Montané with Lisa Pulitzer
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“Although some say the dead can speak, the families of the victims ask themselves if anyone is listening.”
—From The Daughters of Juárez
Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that the murders are not random.
Indeed, there has been much speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens. While some leading members of the American media have reported on the situation, prompting the U.S. government to send in top criminal profilers from the FBI, little real information about this international atrocity has emerged. According to Amnesty International, as of 2006 more than 400 bodies have been recovered, with hundreds still missing.
As for who is behind the murders themselves, the answer remains unknown, although many have argued that the killings have become a sort of blood sport, due to the lawlessness of the city itself. Among the theories being considered are illegal trafficking in human organs, ritualistic satanic sacrifices, copycat killers, and a conspiracy between members of the powerful Juárez drug cartel and some corrupt Mexican officials who have turned a blind eye to the felonies, all the while lining their pockets with money drenched in blood.
Despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians.
The Daughters of Juárez promises to be the first eye-opening, authoritative nonfiction work of its kind to examine the brutal killings and draw attention to these atrocities on the border. The end result will shock readers and become required reading on the subject for years to come.
About the Author
Teresa Rodriguez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist at Univision, the leading Spanish-language network in the United States, where she is the main cohost and correspondent for Univision’s prime-time award-winning newsmagazine program Aquí y Ahora. She has investigated and reported on the Juárez murders for more than eight years.
More praise for The Daughters of Juárez:
“This story is more horrifying than a Stephen King novel, has more twists and turns that an Agatha Christie plot, and has a higher body count than any James Bond flick – and it’s all true. You will never forget The Daughters of Juárez, which is exactly what the authors intend and accomplish brilliantly. This book must be a beacon, a catalyst for justice, that rare commodity so nonexistent in Juárez. The authors bring to life the human faces, shattered families, and lost dreams of those who must not be forgotten.”
--Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Love Kills
“The Daughters of Juárez is a book you cannot put down and will never forget – it will shock you and it should. The authors have done a remarkable job piecing this horrific puzzle into one lucid account of the atrocities that have befallen Juárez, Mexico. This is truly an extraordinary book.”
--Isabel Allende
“The Daughters of Juárez is a crucial, chilling, and detailed account of the mutilations and murders of hundreds of women and girls in Juarez, Mexico. It is a cry for an end to these atrocities and it is a righteous call, after all these years of horror, for justice now.”
--Eve Ensler, Obie Award-winning playwright and founder of
V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women.
If, after
reading this book, you would like to ask the newly-elected President of Mexico,
Mr. Felipe Calderón that these crimes against the women and children of Cd. Juárez
be thoroughly investigated, you may do so by writing him at the following address:
President Felipe Calderón
Mexico
City, Mexico
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