The Lost Women of Juárez

In the border space between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, there is a deep horror that pervades the beautiful desert landscape. Over 500 women have disappeared while commuting back and forth from their homes in Mexico to the sweatshops just across the border in the U.S. These women are mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, and wives. Their voices deserve to be heard, and their names need to be remembered. Their lives are just as rich, beautiful, tragic and chaotic as my own, and yet they are snuffed out by a nameless evil. We must remember not only how they died - but how they lived. These are the Lost Women of Juárez, and they are not so different from me.

-Julianna Rubio Slager