Activist who denounced Mexico border killings dies

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Source: ap

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who first drew attention to the brutal slayings of women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, has died, her nephew said Saturday. She was 73.

Hector Chavez Arbizu said his aunt died of cancer on Friday and will be buried in Ciudad Juarez, where more than 100 women were strangled and their bodies dumped in the desert or vacant lots in a string of killings that began in the 1990s.

Chavez founded Casa Amiga, a shelter for female victims of violence in this city of 1.5 million across the border from El Paso, Texas.

She worked tirelessly to denounce the decade-long string of killings and to demand that the deaths be properly investigated. Most of the victims were young and many worked at border assembly factories known as maquiladoras.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091226/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_obit_esther_chavez

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[virgogal]

1. Another good one gone. May she RIP.

[Way2go]

2. She wouldn't be famous if ALL drugs were legal and if it was as

reasonable to bring them freely across the border as it is for PEOPLE to cross the border. There are no "illegal" migrants. Only
undocumented migrants. Same logic should be applied to drugs. But, if that were true, we'd never have heard of Ms. Chavez. Wonder
if she has relatives in South America.

[a la izquierda]

3. What the hell is the point of your post?

I mean, seriously.

[Adelante]

4. Huh?

[timo]

5. legal meth?

yeah thats just a win win???