Texas Journalist Patrols Grisly Juarez Beat

Diana Washington Valdez was not surprised that three men arrested in the United States last month on immigration charges are also suspected of playing a role in the unsolved murders of young women in the border city of Juarez, Mexico.

The 51-year-old reporter for the El Paso Times has been claiming for years that gang initiation rites and sport killings are the motive behind many of the murders, especially among the 100 or so women whose bodies, ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Rod Amis - Sep 3, 2006 - 3:38 PM PDT
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by Rod Amis - Oct. 1, 2008

Informative reporting on the work of a Texas journalist about the killing of women in Mexico. Thinly sourced but well-written.

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