Alma Guillermoprieto’s reports from the field have been published in the
Mexicans first became aware of feminicide as a specific form of murder in the border city of Juárez, in the 1990s. The failure to solve the killings was one more instance of the complete breakdown of the nation's justice system. This chapter offers an in-depth look at the effort to pin the murders on convenient scapegoats, alongside discussion of police corruption and drug trafficking.
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