The documentary about Juarez
The documentary about Juarez was both very moving and very informative. It exposed a lot of the injustice that goes on in the world that we aren't aware of or even think about. It made me feel blessed for the security that my family, friends, and I enjoy. It also made me feel like we as human beings for the sake of humanity should do something to ensure women around the world the same basic necessity of security. In that movie they interview a young girl who looks like one of my best friends (who is Mexican); and looking at her made me want to cry because I imagined my best friend in that girls place. Why should things like this only affect us if we know the person? It should be a priority to provide safety to people living in any country, but the authorities of Juarez have failed miserably to do so. The most disturbing fact that this documentary pointed out is that not only were these innocent women being victimized by men, but also by women. You would think the women who did this to these young women would place themselves in their shoes. Another disturbing point was how the attorney general was a women and she failed to do anything about what was going on. Sometimes it looked like she didn’t want to do anything about it. You would think that being a woman herself she would have some empathy toward the victims and their families. It looked like she might even be paid off because she wouldn’t look for girls who went missing and then she had the papers falsely print that a girl was found with her boy friend. Another sick thing was how the police was involved and how they found a scapegoat (Sherief) and blamed the whole thing on him, even though he was in prison and the murders kept happening. Where would he get the money to pay gang members 1000 dollars each to murder women if he is in prison? I find it insulting that the police would think that people would actually believe that. It is obvious that the problem goes up to high government positions because there is strong evidence to incriminate police officers (like when they give a skeleton back to the family and it’s not the right skeleton but the right clothes; and there is a pile of women’s clothes at the police station) yet nothing is done. Even if the officers are reported, like the three who assaulted Maria, they are not convicted. I think the way they are dealing (or in this case not dealing) with the cases is wrong. It seems that they don’t care for these women because they view them as “disposable.� There is a lot of them, they all come looking for jobs, an a lot of them don’t seem to know that is going on (they all know that some women disappeared but they don’t know why of what happened to them). They come from helpless families that have no power or affect on the government whose members seem to be clearly involved. It is disgusting how people can take advantage of the helpless while a whole government cans stand there and watch.