If you would like to help the victims’ families there are places you can try. Casa Amiga has a website. Amnesty International is tracking the case. But every voice needs to be heard. The dead cannot speak. The living must do so. You can, for instance, write letters to Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon. One thing to ask for that is simple and concrete? Mexico currently has a 14-year statute of limitations on the crime of murder. If that statute of limitations is not changed to ‘no statute of limitations on murder’, then hundreds of murder cases will be immune from prosecution. This immunity would include the victims of this unending string of cruel murders. Their killer or killers would never have a day in court if this statute is unchanged. These women and children, treated without respect in their final hours or days, tortured and murdered, deserve at least respect in death. Give them this chance at justice. Begin with reading Teresa Rodriguez’ book, Daughters of Juarez.
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