MEXICO: Sexist Violence Invisible in War on Drugs - IPS ipsnews.net: "The militarisation of the war on drugs has had many impacts on Mexico's population of 108 million.
One very clear effect is 'the invisibility of violence against women,' David Peña of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers told IPS. His organisation brought the case of three young women (the 'Cotton Field case') killed in Ciudad Juárez, on the U.S. border, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which held the Mexican state responsible for the killings.
'The number of deaths is so great that there is no differentiation between male and female victims. Worse yet, there is no specification of motives in the murders,' he said.
'If a girl is found dead on the street and the body shows signs of violence, whether she has a bullet wound, is tied up, or there is a dead man next to her, her death is recorded in the category of 'organised crime',' Peña said." Nov. 24, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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