The Deaths Of Women During Ciudad Juarez

In the annual household survey, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics earlier this year, it was reported that 84 out of 100 incidents of rape or sexual misconduct were reported by women (FiveThirtyEight). In most cases, when women immigrate to the United States they are either alone or have paid a great deal of money to have a smuggler help them on their journey to reach the US and Mexico border, which means that they are in a situation where they are very vulnerable, which can lead to them getting raped, or even murdered. Throughout the novel “Enrique’s Journey”, Nazario writes about how Enrique witnessed the rape of a seventeen-year-old girl named Wendy while heading to America. She too was immigrating when Chiapas, a gang group, took her. “‘If you scream,’ he says, ‘we cut you to bits.’ Then he rapes her.” (97). Having Nazario write about the gang rape of a young woman immigrating to America has a very powerful effect on the reader because it shows the trauma that thousands of women go through when looking for a better

Grito Dolores also known as the “Cry of Dolores” marked the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence. The war was launched by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a renowned Catholic priest. The war was started in response to the three hundred years of turmoil that the Mexicans faced from the Spaniards. Such problems that they faced included racial inequality and the imperialism that the Spaniards forced down the throats of the Mexicans. The “ Cry of Dolores” gave the empowering speech given Miguel Hidalgo, in front of his parish church was used as a tool to help empower the populous community.

During the Mexican Revolution, Mexico as a nation torn in many directions, people gave up simple farming lives to take up arms against causes that many of them did not fully understand. Gender roles during the period in Mexico were exceptionally degrading towards women. Having little more rights than slaves and treated as trophies or property more than human beings, women role in society was nothing near that of a man’s. In The Underdogs, Mariano Anzuela highlights the issue of gender roles by continuously illustrating the punitive role of women and their mistreatment. Augmenting Anzuelas work with citations from Oscar Lewis and Stephanie Smith will paint a picture of the degrading gender roles for women during the Mexican Revolution. Highlighted points brought up by Azuela are how men speak with and treat women, women’s place in society, and general disregard for women’s feelings.

     The author of Mexican Lives, Judith Adler Hellman, grapples with the United States’ economic relationship with their neighbors to the south, Mexico. It also considers, through many interviews, the affairs of one nation. It is a work held to high esteem by many critics, who view this work as an essential part in truly understanding and capturing Mexico’s history. In Mexican Lives, Hellman presents us with a cast from all walks of life. This enables a reader to get more than one perspective, which tends to be bias. It also gives a more inclusive view of the nation of Mexico as a whole. Dealing with rebel activity, free trade, assassinations and their transition into the modern age, it justly

The author of this novel used her real life experiences in combination with the friendship that she experienced with Josefina Bórquez in order to create an experience for the reader that helped to justify and understand the life of a woman during the Mexican Revolution. Josefina lived her teenage years as a soldadera, a woman soldier in the Mexican Revolution. After the hardship she faced during wartime, she was subjected to a life of extreme poverty and oppression while living in the slums of Mexico City. The author, Elena Poniatowska, first interacted with Josefina in 1964 during a compilation of interviews that revealed her life story. This is where Josefina became the fictional character of Jesusa, the main character in the novel, Here’s To You, Jesusa!

The Mexican Corridos of 1910-1930 not only depict the lives of certain foreigners living in Mexico and in the United States during this time, but also illustrate what their experiences were like in such locations. While several individuals criticized the life in Mexico, and others criticized the life in the United States, the one thing that remained constant in almost all corridos was the fact that the criticism of Mexico was mainly aimed at the overall poverty of the country, while criticism of life in the United States focused mostly on the well-being and class of Americans themselves and not so much on the country’s financial status.

Globalization: a process of interaction between the social, economic and political systems of different nations, a process powered by international trade and investment. Some assert that globalization encourages the spread of more “enlightened and egalitarian” Western values and international tolerance, while others believe that this phenomenon harms more than it helps and fosters an uncontrolled and abusive economic environment. There is no shortage of opinions on the matter, though one sure point of fact is that globalization affects all aspects of modern life, including the murky world of gendered violence. Between the signing of NAFTA in 1992 and the middle of 2002, just shy of three hundred blue-collar female factory workers were murdered in the border town of Juarez, Mexico. However, these numbers are simply the tip of the iceberg when compared to the four-hundred-and-fifty additional disappearances during that decade, a grand total that is only increasing with each passing year. In short, these murders eventually sparked international intrigue and distress, forcing the world to take a closer look at some of the uglier consequences of globalization. Essentially, the femicides of Juarez are simply a symptom of a patriarchal society unconcerned with the lives of its workforce, a culture that values products more than the people who produce them: the overlapping timelines of the Juarez

The Mexican American war In the beginning, the Mexicans gain their independence from Spanish empire in 1821. This is how it started. The Mexicans gained their independence from the Spanish empire and the Kingdom of Spain from the Treaty of Córdoba in 1821. Spain was a monarchy until they changed it to a public only a few years later. Their monarchy was not very organized, they were an unstable government for about two years.

As I have researched and read different sides of “Jimmy Polk’s War” I have been shown that history is not always right or wrong sided. The United States declared war on Mexico since American forces stationed in Texas were attacked by the Mexican military. President Polk's declaration of war sent to Congress for ratification stated that Mexico "invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil." Was our war with Mexico the "most unjust war in history", as Ulysses S. Grant, a veteran of that war, described it? Among the Blame America First precincts today, and south of the Rio Grande, this belief is widespread. (“Mexican–American War.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Oct. 2017)

In 1846, the United States took up arms against Mexico. The US Mexican War was over the expansion of slavery into regions acquired from Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant, (General of the Union Army during the Civil War) towards the end of his life, believes the Civil War was a product of the US Mexican War. General Grant, also in the US Mexican War, states the war started as a struggle over the expansion of slavery and became a precursor to the war between the north and south (Johannsen). The larger over the smaller (a David versus Goliath comparison).

The United States was a swiftly growing country. It was not a perfect country by any means, but it was learning and amending its flaws, bit by bit. It had a lot on its agenda without adding another war to it. So, I believe that the Mexicans had provoked the war and the United States was simply defending its citizens.

The story illustrates the overlapping influences of women’s status and roles in Mexican culture, and the social institutions of family, religion, economics, education, and politics. In addition, issues of physical and mental/emotional health, social deviance and crime, and social and personal identity are

The considerable amount of violence against women in that border town, the answer is due to less protection from the employers and government. It happened only due to the culture of corruption that the movie depicts, where the employers do not want to spend any money on security programs.

Violence takes many forms: it can be physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and even within families, or combinations of one or more of these. In most cases, the violence has been “acceptable” because of the cultural traditions that are largely respected. However, with the increasing emergence of the women’s movement internationally and even within Mexico itself, many Mexican males regard their roles as belittled. There has been a subtle and sometimes obvious backlash against the women’s movement, especially if women have independent living or income possibilities. In a culture in which violence is the norm, beatings, rape, torture, mutilation, and even murder are frequently overlooked. This has been painfully evident in the cases of mass murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.

The killer had a modus operandi in all the murders. The killer murdered only women. Women were brutaly murdered. They were not just stabbed but were butchered.