Murder City_ Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields - Charles Bowden [114]
WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH
Last night a woman was found dead, apparently from a beating, inside her home located in the Colonia Anahuac. The body was found around 11:00 at night in a house located in Churubusco Street near the corner of Melchor Muzquiz, according to reports from the Secretary of Public Security. The first agents who arrived at the scene reported that the victim was severely beaten. Family members of the victim arrived at the house and identified her as María Guadalupe Esparza Zavala, 34. They added that their relative lived alone and they did not know who could have killed her.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 21, 2008
14 POLICE MURDERED IN 13 MONTHS
The municipal policeman murdered yesterday morning is the 14th police homicide victim in the past 13 months, according to media reports. . . . Yesterday, the agent killed Sunday was officially identified as Captain Julián Cháirez Hernández, 37, who worked in the Aldama district. Before this murder, another 13 agents had died in similar circumstances since January 2007. Of the 14 victims, 13 were killed by gunfire while one was intentionally run over by a car.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 22, 2008
AS OF TODAY NO ARRESTS
The State Prosecutor’s Office reported that as of today, no arrests have been made in the murder of a 10-year-old girl in her house located in Parajes de San Juan in the southeastern part of the city. The victim, Mirna Yesenia Muñoz
Ledo Marín, was alone at the time of the murder. Her stepfather was at work and her mother had gone out to take another of her children to the doctor.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 23, 2008
AT THE GRAVESITE, SEEKING JUSTICE FOR MIRNA YESENIA
The body of Mirna Yesenia Muñoz Ledo Marín lies in a white casket in the center of a room in a small adobe house in Colonia Mexico 68, watched over by her family and friends. The house belongs to Celia Moreno Portillo, grandmother of the 10-year-old girl, where she and her family lived for the past year. . . . Pain and anger provoked demands for justice, that the authorities find the person who took the life of the innocent little girl. “We want to find who is responsible; the authorities must do their work,” said Faustino and Mayra Luisa Marín, half-brother and sister of the child. They indicated that their mother and stepfather had gone to live in Parajes de San Juan in order to find a better life and never imagined that they would lose Mirna Yesenia, the youngest of 7 children.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 24, 2008
OFFICIALS SEEK GENETIC PROFILE OF THE YOUNG GIRL’S MURDERER
The State Prosecutor’s Office is processing the fluid found on the girl’s body.
DNA will be compared with a series of suspects. Last Tuesday, the state authority confirmed that Mirna Yesenia Muñoz Ledo Marín was sexually assaulted. The child died from a laceration to the heart after being stabbed in the chest with a sharp object.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 25, 2008
CORNER PEANUT VENDOR MURDERED
According to witnesses, a peanut and pumpkin seed vendor was shot yesterday at midday by a man traveling in a car similar to those driven by the State
Investigative Agency. . . . The crime took place at 2:30 in the afternoon when the man, identified only by his nickname, “Freckles,” was selling peanuts at an intersection in the eastern area of the city.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 25, 2008
CHURCH PLEADS FOR PRAYER TO STOP THE VIOLENCE IN JUÁREZ
Catholic church leaders in Ciudad Juárez asked the community and priests to join in prayer for justice and reconciliation.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 26, 2001
IDENTIFY AUTHORS OF POLICE AGENTS’ MURDERS
CHIHUAHUA—The State Prosecutor’s Office has identified the presumed authors of the recent murders of the ministerial agents and the attack on Commander Fernando Lozano and is ready to issue arrest warrants, informed the State Attorney General, Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, January 27, 2008
“ . . . FOR THOSE WHO CONTINUE NOT BELIEVING”
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