Collateral Damage: Ciudad Juarez - Enough is Enough

Ciudad Juarez: Enough is Enough - Salem-News.Com: "Increasingly, more and more Juarenses are saying enough is enough. In a manifestation of popular disgust turned into collective action, thousands of doctors and nurses conducted a work-stoppage December 13 to protest public insecurity and government incompetence. Service practically ground to a halt at large hospitals and private clinics. ...

At a forum held late last week at Ciudad Juarez’s Colegio de la Frontera Norte, women’s groups and their allies analyzed the Mexican government’s response to the 2009 sentence by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) related to the cotton field femicide case. (They also evaluated) the federal government’s “Todos Somos Juarez” social reconstruction and public security plan enacted after the massacre of young people at a house party in the Villas de Salvarcar neighborhood last January. On both counts, the Calderon administration’s responses were judged resounding failures." Dec.. 14, 2010, from 
Frontera NorteSur (FNS): on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news, Center for Latin American and Border Studies, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.