Monday, August 10, 2009
"In Ciudad Juarez, young women are vanishing." It's a front-page headline, LA Times, a story reported by Ken Ellingwood. "The streets of Juarez are swallowing the young and pretty," the story begins, and then, young woman by young woman, we are told the details. Of a studious, reliable college freshman who simply did not return from exams. Of a 17-year-old Brenda and a 16-year-old Hilda last seen downtown. Of girls as young as 13 simpy not coming home.
This breaks my heart. This is more bad news for a place beseiged by a viscious drug war. A place I loved after spending long, enriching days there with nearly two dozen teens a few years ago. Today I am remembering lost sisters, daughters, friends. I am hoping for an end to the madness.
5 comments:
Absolutely heartbreaking. Thanks for bringing our attention to this, Beth.
This is terrifying to me, and would be doubly so if I'd left a piece of my heart in this town as you did.
Prayers...
~ A.
Ditto, what Anna said.
So horrible and frightening. I know your heart must be breaking for all those poor girls.
I can't imagine living with that kind of fear and heartbreak.
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