Federal Organized Crime Unit Will Investigate Disappearances in Ciudad Juarez Anaiz Zamora Marquez - Proceso
go to original June 22, 2013

Juarez Mothers Fight Femicide is about the mothers of the "Women of Juarez." The video does not try to pound you over the head with more information. It basically looks at the opinions of the mothers in regards to what was the final story with each case. Interviewed are mothers from all social strata but this film points out that the pain is equal and all valid emotions. The fact that the "women are poor" is pointed out by Marisela Ortiz from Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa as a reason why nobody does anything about these murders. (zaguiar)

As a result of at least six hours of negotiations, the Secretariat of Government Relations (Segob) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) made a commitment to attend to the demands of the mothers of the missing youths from Ciudad Juárez, after two weeks of protest outside of the Segob headquarters.

The agreement was set on last Tuesday evening, June 18, after the women marched to Los Pinos [The Pines], the official residence of the president, where a civil servant told them that President Enrique Peña could not attend to them up until the year 2015 [because, they said, his schedule was full until then].

Malú García Andrade, legal representative of the civic organization Our Daughters Return Home, announced that after the march to the official residence at Los Pinos, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, head of the Unit for the Defense of Human Rights (UDDH) of the Segob, came to the protestors’ camp to ask them for a meeting and to arrive at an agreement.

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Translated by Julie Kawamura

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