Women Continue To Disappear In Juarez–3 Cases So Far In 2008
From Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez:
“Sadly, another young woman is missing from Juarez. Her name is HILDA
GABRIELA RIVAS CAMPOS and she disappeared on February 25th on her way
home from school, again from the center of the city. This time the
authorities instituted the Alba Protocol, which is intended to link
various police agencies in an immediate search, similar to Amber
alerts in this country. She is the third young woman to disappear from
Juarez in 2008.Adriana Sarimiento Enriquez disappeared January 18, 2007.
Ana Christina de la O Espino disappeared on January 23, 2008.
See our Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez for more information on these three young women. The central area of Juarez is now officially considered an area of high risk.”
Filed under: Uncategorized, Atrocities, Misogyny, Gender-Based Violence
I lived in Mexico a half century ago. At that time many authorities took the position that it was scandalous/unseemly/unnatural for a woman to physically defend herself.
Is that still the case, I wonder? A few years ago here in my large Southern US city, a man tried to grab a university student as she walked down a transitional street lined with mostly vacant buildings. This student was ready–she zapped him with a taser and then hit him with pepper spray.
Young people should not be expected to have to physically fight for their lives–but on the other hand–self-defense classes are a good idea. I’m hoping young Latin women won’t be too inhibited by cultural expectations to defend themselves.