"I came to Ciudad Juárez to witness the mystery and the secret surrounding the deaths of hundreds of women." ""When I was pregnant with Silvia they asked me to bring some rice to a lady who worked in a bar that was called 'La Estrella'." "I left 'I am going already' and she said:" "'Wait and we can go together.'" "When the car came there were two persons in the rear and the one driving." "So she said: 'Get into the back' and I said" "'No, I won't get in, I will be riding with you!" "'" "I got into the car with her up front, and they started the car - but I didn't know where it was heading because I didn't know Juárez very well." "When we got to a motel, they opened a gate and parked the car." "So I got out crying and said:" "'I want to go home.'" "And he said:" "'Now we are going to take you there.'" "So he started the car, but instead of taking me home they took me somewhere else." "They took me to Pationes." "They took me to the uninhabited areas." "I got out and I got back in." "I was running between the sanddunes." "I was covered in spikes." "Then he caught up and took me back to the car." "And I was praying to god so he would take care of me." "So he would defend my daughter." "If this guy is going to kill me!" "But I stayed with him all night, and he would only hit me." "When I [got out] I ran away, but he took me along further and when I got out, the sun got out, and he said:" "'Give me your adress, and I will take you home.'" "He said: "Be very careful, because this person told me he was going to sell you for 15 Pesos." "If I would have been another person," "I would have killed you already and I would have left you lying here and who would have realized that you had been killed?"" "Afterwards, I thought what would have happened to me happened to my daughter later." "After me being pregnant with her, she grew up and that happened to her."" "When I got to Juárez few people wanted to speak about the women who have been killed." "It is impossible to know the exact number." "In the last 10 years between 200 and 400 women have been killed." "Few of these crimes have been resolved." "Why are the deaths of so many women being ignored?" "Why do the crimes continue?" "Ciudad Juárez, Mexico is located on the border to El Paso, Texas." "For some americans, Juárez is the place where everything which is prohibited is available." "For the mexicans it is their home and the place where they work." ""When I came to Juárez" "I was looking for work in a night club." "The customers offered me drugs but I was afraid." "Then one day I was drunk and tried."" "One of the most important businesses on the border is narcotrafficking generating thousands of Millions of Dollars." ""In the center they sell you drugs." "They sell drugs as if it were candy."" "This city on the border is one of the main places for people to cross the border with the US, the world's biggest consumer of illegal drugs." "When the Free Trade Agreement was signed the multinationals flooded Ciudad Juárez with assembly factories, known as Maquiladoras." "80 per cent of them are US-american." "The companies come to Juárez attracted by the abundance of cheap labor." "In the year 2000 the assembly industry generated about 16.000 million Euros." "The young people who travel to Juárez from the poorest areas of Mexico by themselves come looking for work." "They make 4 or 5 Euros per day and dream of their economic independency." ""I want to work in an assembly factory."" ""Why?"" ""Because I can help my parents with the money I make."" "Juárez is the city of the future." "Like a model of globalisation, Juárez is tumbling out of control." ""What did you hear?"" ""Well, not much, that they did rape a girl, and she was found, I don't know where."" ""Are you afraid?"" ""No."" "In Lomas de Poleo, Monte Bravo, the outskirts of Juárez, the desert hides a lot of secrets." ""The first time the governor appeared on TV he was asked about the first 8 bodies that were found here in Juárez, and he said:" "'The problem is that they are prostitutes." "They have two lifes." "One which their families know about and the one they life on week-ends." "The one with their parents are not in touch with." "It is a high-risk group.'"" ""A very similar pattern was found." "The girls go to certain places, meet a certain kind of people and get to a certain level of trust to evil-doers and people from the gangs who then turn into their aggressors."" "Feminist groups were alarmed by these crimes against women." "The DA of the state of Chihuahua came up with a strange solution:" ""The society should be concerned about the good ones, the ones who stay at home, the ones who stay with their families, and well, the bad ones are the ones who are out on the streets."" ""We have a very big industry with about 180.000 workers in the assembly factories, very young people, women, a lot of them start working at 5 or 6 in the morning, and leave the second shift at 12 at night," "because of the requirements of the jobs, so they have to be on the streets."" ""Well, I think, it is a question of how you see it;" "sure, the ones who have to work, but we are doing what we can, and the road leading the ones going to work is very obvious just like the clothes worn by the ones who go to work are very obvious."" ""Neither the PAN nor the PRI have solved these problems." "I think as much as the actual authorities have cooperated to increase this violence against women." "From the moment they were in power, we were made responsible for being out at night or dressed provocatively, so we make them responsable for this increase!" ""She used to work in a shoe shop, the day my daughter vanished was her free day." "That day I was doing the laundry," "I took it out, I hung it up, and I felt weird." "My daughter had vanished a month ago already when they found a skeleton on september 9th." "But they said, it was a 12-year-old girl who had been dead for 6 months." "So one of the guys there said, he took me to a corner, a sack of bones;" "since I was there already I took out the tennis shoes and it was her, then I took out the pants." "I got the bag out, the panties, and shall I say something more?" "I took out the head, seperated, a bone, like a washed bone nothing else, but a skull." "A lot of time had passed." "And they made me see the teeth," "I couldn't go on just because I had seen the clothes, and he asked me wether my daughter had her teeth done, but there were no brackets on the skull..." "And I asked, and the pathologist told me that these people were out of work now."" "If it wasn't her daughter's skeleton, whose was it`then?" "And who was going to be the next victim?" "The murderers find their prisoners easily." "The only thing that was for sure was that the victims were poor, young, thin, with long dark hair." "Every time more bodies of women appeared and nothing was done to penalize the murderers." "The terror took over the city." "Rumours and rough speculations spread." "In the mid-90's more than 50 women had been killed." "The inhabitants were frightened that a serial killer was on the loose." ""What could be an important trace for getting the psycopath murderer of de Bravo got public today, that a girl managed to escape, after having been kidnapped since monday morning in a house in an exclusive part of town."" "The authorities say that this individual could be the rapist and murderer of the 7 girls whose bodies were found in the desert." "The State Police arrested someone who says his name is Sharif Sharif, 40 years old, nationality egyptian, a couple of hours ago." "Presumably he kidnapped and attacked a 19-year-old girl sexually." "Apart from these red stains that seem to be blood, inside and outside of the shirt, the State Police hopes that with these pictures, the person under arrest will get recognised as the potential rapist of Monte Bravo." ""From 1995 on, since he got here, the one who was arrested." "I got to know him here and I started helping him a little, for example with the language, because he didn't speak spanish."" "Abdel Adid Sharif, immigrant of egyptian nationality is a chemical engineer who worked in the assembly industry." "I knew he had been in jail in the United States for ill-treatment and sexual harassement for 5 years." "In Juárez, people were scared of seeing Sharif on TV." "The media said he looked like a murderer." "The population calmed down when the police arrested him." "In the end, something had been done." "But even after Sharif's arrest the horrible murders continued." ""It is impossible that the authorities did not notice that at least of the ones we have registered," "13 women carry the same signs of violence:" "tied hands and an injury in the shape of an inverted 'v' between their back and their buttocks and an injury with something pointed and sharp on the belly." "13 of these in the same conditions with the same knots." "But this can't be taken into account so things do not get more complicated because these days they had Sharif already." "So, with Sharif arrested, more women appeared with these signs." "When bodies appeared with satanic signs, a terror that had never been there before spread over the city." "The inhabitants demanded a solution:" "this time the authorities replied." ""I invited the three departments of the police, the PGR, the State Police, and us for a meeting tomorrow to coordinate immediate actions which this kind of situation requires."" "It was established that the suspects for these crimes had to undergo intense interrogations and some police records already, young men between 25 and 30, with long hair and dressed cowboy-style, of regular built, but somehow strong." "Also, men with short hair of the military kind were arrested and several women with loose life-styles that could have been acquainted with the murderers of the women killed in the series." "Two white vehicles with tinted windows were confiscated and a red Ford Opas, the ones that correspond to the characteristics of the vehicles used to carry out the kid-nappings of the girls." ""8 people were arrested, all of them were pointed out to us very convincingly for being responsable for the homocides, rapes and kid-napping of the persons that have been found in Monte Bravo and Lomas de Poleo." "These investigations have been going on for a while carrying out a very positive work done by the judicial state police, members of the expert departement, members of the public ministry and members of the administrative departement."" "According to the authorities, Sharif planned the murders from his cell coordinating "Los rebeldes" who comitted the crimes." "Before paying them he would demand to see a sample of the victim's underwear as a proof of her death." ""We are not the ones who are guilty." "There are guilty people out there, but it's not us." "They don't think that I sent out a message on TV to the girls' mothers, so they take care of their daughters because the rapist still is on the loose for sure."" "All the members of "Los rebeldes" were arrested." "But the crimes did not stop." "81 women had been killed already." ""You know how she was; my daughter was really nice." "She was very noble, very lovely to me, here in the community everybody liked her because she was the catechist, she would teach the catechism to the kids, and she was a member of the church choir."" ""When my sister and me were in primary school, and my other two sisters," "Sagrario and Juana were smaller, we took care of them at school." "I remember that once some other girls picked on them and they complained to us." "Well, we were older and took care of them at school."" ""She was working in an assembly factory as a production operator." "After leaving the factory at 3:45, she didn't get home, she never arrived."" "Sagrario's mother told me, somebody in the factory changed her daughter's shift plan." "As a result, that day Sagrario left work by herself without the protection of her family." "If you go over Sagrario's case, they took several photos of her before they kid-napped her." "In the factories it is very common to take full-length photos of your entire body." "There are photos taken on Friday when they pay you, and for example when you have a look at the photos of Sagrario, she looks like a model." "So I said: 'We have to look for them there." "Because as far as I am concerned, they select them from the photos.'" "I don't know, I knew something bad was happening." "Well Andrés, her boyfriend, had given her these parakeets." "When I went to take the parakeets out into the sun, my son told me that one of the parakeets was dead, it was Cli;" "and this parakeet, Lui, didn't let anybody hold him except for her." "So I began taking him out and I was not scared that he was going to pinch me, so I took him out, and I asked him for Sagrario." "So I said: "Lui, do you know where she is, where's Sagrario?" "Where is Mari?" "'" "And he moved the head." "As if he understood me, the parakeet was shaking his head." "I realised that the parakeet went on tuesday, and on wednesday they found my daughter." "They found her on wednesday and on thursday, when they went to get her, we knew already that they had found her." "It caught my attention that my daughter's parakeets didn't feel well."" ""The day Silvia disappeared, she went to a bar to get some money that they owed her." "My daughter uesd to sell make-up, she sold it in the bars to the dancers, in places where they have dancers and people that work behind bars." "After 2 days and a half after she disappeared, I went to this place." "I talked to one of the dancers and she said that she was not going to talk, they were not going to say anything about meeting Silvia, because it was not good for them to say the truth." "They were threatened if they said the truth."" ""The house was full of people, we had some neighbors up front, and with these neighbors we argued about the land when we just got here." "Everybody was beating each other up with sticks and clubs." "So I went to where they were trying to calm them down, and I told my son 'Go and run, get the police, your father is being beat up.'" "So they took us to Barandilla, and they explained why everybody was going to be arrested there." "And the ones who were not going to remain under arrest were going to be paying a 250 Pesos fine each." "I did not pay that, so I spent 24 hours there." "I stayed under the custody of the female officer." "When they took the guys, she said: "Well, come here, to the bathroom.'" "So we went to the bathroom." "She stood behind me and said:" "'Take off all your clothes.'" "And she started touching me." "I said: 'No', I couldn't stand it, I pushed her away, I said:" "'If you don't leave me alone I will call the police.'" "Then, she stepped away, took the clothes and threw them into my face and shouted 'Dress!" "' and kicked me with her knee in my belly and I had to catch breath." "Then she said:" "'If you say something, they are going to fuck you!"" "Then she looked at the policeman standing there and told him:" "'So she does not say anything!" "'" "And the female officer said:" "'This bitch does not want to give in!" "'" "Then I yelled out:" "'Oh my God!" "So everybody knows what's happening here!" "'" "I didn't notice when the policeman came in." "He pushed me to a hidden corner and said:" ""I've liked you from the first moment I saw you.'" "And he took me as if he was crazy, you know?" "He treated me very badly, he offended me, he put me under pressure, pretty badly, pretty brutally." "I was crying, pretty desperately:" "'Mari, hey, protect us!"" ""...madam, this does not get you anywhere!"" ""What do you want, who knows, well, you know I am not a security," "I am a police officer." "What do you want?"" "I said: 'No, well, with this lady it did not work out.'" "He said: 'All that enter here are equal.'"" "The local government hired foreign investigators, but they didn't manage to resolve the crimes." ""To demand justice for the mothers who lost their daughters." "To get a public prosecutor to investigate these crimes, so there can be more intense investigations, so these criminals get punished."" "In 1996, facing the population's anger, a special public prosecutor's office was created to investigate the femicides." ""When we started here in the prosecutor's office, we figured out that we did not even have enough equipment, not even the most basic , like paper bags, gloves or tape to fence off the areas." "There was no culture of preserving the crime scene, so these areas were too contaminated and we ended up loosing evidence, therefore the investigations were ruined." "It was very diffcult to deal with the presumed responsable or responsables of a homicide." ""Well, when my sister - when they found the body - what happened was that the entire body was pretty rotten." "It was conserved, and DNA test was carried out with my parents' and the body's DNA to be sure." "After a long time waiting the result turned out to be negative." "My mother went there after 3 days and said: 'You know, we need more tests.'" "'These weren't enough?" "'" "'Well,' said my mother 'send them again!" "'" "They exhumed another body which was not my sisters, grave number 74 on the graveyard, the file said 73, but that was not a coincidence, and I told the public ministry" "'It's like, there is a small mistake here, with the 74', but it actually was no mistake at all!"" ""Well, the case of Sagrario Gonzales is still being investigated." "It has not been solved yet."" ""In 2 years?"" ""More or less, we are on to something already, but we need evidence to corroborate the investigations we have been carrying out." "And so far we have not found any."" "In Juárez, nothing is predictible or constant." "The city is growing disproportionately." "From dusk till dawn, the suburbs seem to be lacking addresses, water, light or telephones." ""A girl was found raped, beaten, and she said who was her aggresor." "It turned out to be a bus driver of one of the local lines going to the assembly factories."" ""The ones who are responsable are Gaspi, Bernardo, ..."" ""Whom did they kill, you know?"" "This time they thought they had caught the guilty ones." ""And the state secretary gave a press conference and said:" "'We have the responsable ones already." "It is a gang of drivers, again lead by Sharif Sharif.'" "How come?" "It's just the same story they came up with when dealing with 'Los Rebeldes'." "Just the same." "They were paid, only that 'Los rebeldes' were apparently paid 1000 Pesos per head and now the drivers got 1200 Dollars."" "Here we would be talking about the narco- that it was them who paid for the commitment of these crimes." "The one who paid for it, well, we started with Sharif Sharif, who was the intellectual author among them and the one who paid for commiting these crimes." "His direct link was the 'Alianza Juzgada' from the narco business, and therefore he would receive the money and split it with more complices." "So far 172 women had been killed." ""After a while an officer came in with a small box like that." "He opened the cell, came in and began handing the pills out to everyone." "He said: 'Take these!" "'" "It took a lot of effort to open my eyes," "I was very sleepy, I just couldn't." "I heard that they were opening the outside door, and who turned up was this one and the other one, well it all seemed very serious." "The were very high, you could see that in their eyes." "Their eyes looked very red." "And their mouths, their tongues, they were brabbling when they spoke." "Their lips got very white." "So they said hello, they spoke, and then that was when he said 'Don't look at me that way!" "' and then he said: 'Hey, they are talking about some of the Pejeros', because the door shut right in front of us, they were going to take us out in a hurry." "So they closed the door and took us to another cell, where there was a kitchen, which was very hidden, and I saw women's clothes, panties, bras, dresses, all of them thrown into the same cell, as if it were a dump." "Crying, I said to one of them:" "'Why do you have all these clothes here?" "'" "He said: 'We take away all these clothes from all the girls we take in here before we take them away.'"" ""See, in this other case of one of the girls," "Guadalupe Río Velazquez, another girl's body was found with Guadalupe's clothes, but it was not Guadalupe."" ""I have never accepted my daughter's death." "I think it is easy to get some bodies and put other clothes onto them." "There are a lot of things, you see, and I cannot accept that after a month there are just bones left."" "A little before Suly Ponce became the public prosecutor, the police ordered evidence of great value to be burned:" "More than 500 kilograms of clothes belonging to the victims, collected over the years." ""I entered the room, and he started taking photos of me," "'But if you say something or if you denounce us, we got you here, we are going to find you with these photos we took." "You can wear what you want, we are going to find you." "And we are going to kill you." "You and your family, too."" ""If you are interested in the investigations:" "'Well, we do not have any traces.'" "But I kept on insisting." "I kept on going, I said:" "'Listen, I want a copy of the file." "Well, the file was lacking a lot of the testimonies of people who according to them had been giving evidence.'" "He said: 'Well, you cannot do anything anymore.'" "I went to talk to the attorney, they talked to Mejía: 'What happened to this file?" "'" "He said: 'Well, we cannot keep the investigation going, because we do not have any evidence, it was thrown away.'" "'If there is no evidence to keep on investigating,'" "I said 'I will get you some!" "'" "I went to talk to certain people here who knew Silvía." "That was when they told me the name of these creeps, they told me the names of everybody who was in her book." "La Chantaneles is this woman, she was sought after, she went to bars where there were women or dancers, and they invited her to dance with them." "Of course they'd go out!" "That was when they got to these places where there were these people called 'Los pejeros'."" ""So, we got home and I told him:" "'I don't want to go, I don't want to denounce anyone." "I don't want to be with you either.'" "I told him: 'I don't deserve you." "What has happened to me has already happened, I don't want to." "So it does not do you any harm.'" "He said: 'This was nothing but an accident." "We have to denounce them.'"" ""After identifying the municipal police officers who misused her sexually when she was arrested with her husband in the well-known 'Cárcel de Piedra', the victim talked about this attack publicly in front of the TV cameras."" ""...when Las Vias came to us to inform us about what had happened to her." "Definitely, We are convinced that what she says is the truth." "What we did was reopening the file but unfortunately we were not in control of that file anymore." "It was already in court;" "we began to insist with the judge, but it turned out that she was going to be imprisoned immediately." "Unfortunately, the only way we can support her as she is being kept under arrest, is to try to find and detain the criminals responsable for harming her."" "The officers who raped María were never sentenced." ""When my husband went to Los Angeles, California, there was a black car, a Gran Marquis, with tinted windows that stopped outside the ground-floor entrance." "The kids were sleeping already, so I leaned out of the window, and it was El Diablo." "He got out of the car, dressed in black completely, turned to the house, and shot two bullets." "He shot into the air, I was about to get the police when I remembered:" "'The police are just the same!" "'" "Staying here locked in at home is better than leaving the house." "When the door opened, I got up, looked out, he was trying to start the car, they were fighting in the car." "And then a neighbour's car turned up." "What am I supposed to tell you?"" ""They don't let us in!" - "...women who vanished..."" "In 1999 the FBI informed that more than 200 bodies of Mexicans and North-Americans had been buried on ranches outside Juárez." "In a cooperative mission with the Chihuahua state authorities the FBI entered Mexico to investigate." "They only found 8 bodies." "So the FBI left again." ""So they are talking about 200 persons who disappeared and 200 graves, but nobody talks about the women." "Despite the fact that they are there, at the gates of the ranches where the bodies were found." "But nobody talks about that."" ""Was there a link between the narco gangs and the deaths of the women?"" ""None."" ""Not at all?" - "Not at all."" ""Here things are very strange." "For example, when we do searches here, and dead bodies appear after 4 or 5 days." "Even if it just is a skeleton, right?" "But they turn up in places, so I say:" "'How come this is like that?" "'" "So we are doing searches, there are guards, all that, but how to they take them there?"" ""I think, they were selected carefully." "Most of them do not have the economic background to support a full-time struggle." "Most of them, for example Mari, do not even have the money to pay the bus to get to the office."" ""They catch them, take them away, and then they are dead." "That's all I know."" ""You know that recently there was a girl that vanished on the corner?"" ""No, I didn't know that."" ""Like on may 3rd?"" "When I returned in 2000 people assured me that the deaths had stopped." "After a few days María Isabel Nava vanished." ""On 4th of January, my daughter and me went to find work." "She went to get a job where I work." "She was going to start in the evening, and I had the morning shift." "So she was going to go at evening." "We went at 5:30 in the morning." "I went in to start working." "She stayed outside queueing so she would get hired." "She got in, but I didn't know when she left."" ""The lady who was talking to my daughter for a long time, several hours - well, when we managed to find her, she distracted us talking about a black car, a Gran Marquis." "The following day she was talking about a Yeta, another kind of car." "When we got to see the video, we realised that it is not even sure that there was a car at all." "We know that she was walking between Piero and Mateos and that it is not sure that there was car, neither a Yeta nor a Gran Marquis." "The lady knew that I was looking for my daughter." "We were about to find her that day, and the following day she didn't come to work, or went to a different factory." "Why would she loose more days looking for a job and when she gets one move on to another?" "'I did not like working there' she said." "What I thought was that she was a selecting the girls." "Apparently she has been to three factories already."" ""She did not get home, so I was looking for her, whether she was arrested or in the hospital or the red cross, I thought an accident..."" "In their desperate situation, the relatives of the victims organised searches in the desert." ""We are going to set up lines, 20 persons are going to be over there, and 20 persons are going to be on the left side."" ""My daughter vanished on Tuesday." "On Wednesday we reported it to the police, on Thursday I went to the facilitator," "Mister Asturilla, and there I met Suly Ponce." "I talked to her about the issue, but she said: 'No, Tuesday is hardly over!" "'" "'So I will wait that my daughter turns up dead somewhere in order to do something?" "'" "'Well, no, we are going to look for her.'" "'We will wait, I guess she went to her boyfriend and then she will come home...'" "Now we have been waiting for 24 days."" "In the newspaper El Norte, there was a photo with all the details about my daughter saing that she had been with her boyfriend..." "I bought El Norte." "The name was hers, there were our names, but it was not her, it was not her picture." "So I called El Norte, and they said that this information was a couple of days old." "So we went to complain to Suly Ponce." "'What happened here?" "' and she said:" "'The journalists must have mixed that up, it was a mistake.'" "This harmed us because lot of people would stop looking for her."" "The evidence for the cases seems to have been collected randomly." "I did not trust in anything they told me and anything I read." "The only trustworthy sources of information are the victims and their families." ""So now there is Suly Ponce and I told her, well, I brought her the book and I said:" "'Look, in here there are these people." "Get the Chatanel." "Get all the other people." "If you are in charge of her case, you can do a lot of things;" "that you do not want to is another issue." "Are you scared?" "Whom are you scared of?" "'" "She said: 'Are you not scared?" "'"" ""There is something very unlogic about the fact that my daughter vanished right outside a police station."" "The first time María told us what happened to her in prison, she did not reveal all the details because she was scared of the police." "With the support of her husband, Pedro, she can tell us the complete story now." ""One of them asked me: 'You want us to take you to Lomas de Poleo?" "He left, and came back with folders, and gave them to me in the cell." "He started waving the photos like that." "So I saw them." "'Look at them, look at them, bitch!" "'" "And he grabbed me by my hair, he held me like this." "I saw women's faces with long hair, they grabbed them by the hair, tied their hands with it and took them along." "All tied up like this to the desert plants." "And then they put them all in a circle, and then they would lay them down and rape them." "And one would have a go and then another one." "They hit them, they raped them and they raped them rectally." "All of them, and they were all laughing, they were looking at the photos and they were laughing." "They were looking at how they knocked them down and were roaring with laughter." "They were laughing about what the other ones were doing." "And then the others took photos." "And then the women, they would bite them, it is really close and a really clear picture." "So beaten, and you could see the pain in her face." "All the suffering." "They were looking like that." "They were crying and screaming - her face without - the pain the felt was reflecting in her face because of what he was doing to her." "And - they looked very sad."" ""To the other girls they did what they did to them and they sprinkled them with gas and set fire onto them." "They burnt and died." "And they were laughing on the photos as they were looking at the women burning." "The poor ones."" "We heard that a woman's body had been found without a single drop of blood, burnt and with a semi circular injury on the back." ""So, at 6 in the evening they called me on the phone to tell me that the news on TV were reporting that a burnt body, apparently a woman's body was found." ""They found the body in a water hole, that is the only thing I can say." "I don't know, I don't know who it was nor who it could be."" ""Do you want to know?"" ""Well, I would really like to know." "I would like the authorities to figure that out so they punish these people." "But at this level of the problem, I do not want to get involved."" ""I went to the morgue at about 8 in the evening to see the person that was there." "I went in to see her and it did look like the hair was my daughter's." "When we went through the belongings" "I remembered that she had a tank top, without sleeves, she liked it a lot, she would always wear it." "So I got home to find the tank top and we did not find it." "In the morning I got there with Gloria so she would identify her." "She identified some of the clothes, with a piece of the leggings she used to put under her pants." "Just a piece because the rest was completely burned." "She recognised the tank top and a rubber band that my daughter was wearing in her hair that did not get burned."" ""They did not investigate at all." "According to what the doctor said, my daughter died ten days ago." "So if she died ten days ago, we had a fortnight to find her." "Who knows whether it was her luck to survive?" "I like thinking that."" "So far there are reports about 230 assasinated girls." "Who are the murderers?" "Still, the question has not been answered." "Perhaps la Justicia or Los Rebeldes are responsible, perhaps Los Ruteros, the police or the narco-traffickers, or perhaps all of them?" ""Do you go out?"" ""At night I go out, but I don't go very far." "I go to chat with friends."" ""Do all the girls know the truth?"" ""Yes."" ""And have you already heard about someone from the neighborhood to whom this happened?"" ""No."" "A little after we interviewed these girls, the sister of one of them vanished." ""...because not even in the movies you see that there is that much perfect crime around, and you just don't know who does it." "So they present someone to the public about whom they do not know anything..." "Everyday they repeat 'It's him, it's him!" "', stressing that he is a prisoner, just like it was with Sharif, and then the murders continue, and no one is responsible..."" "Before she left Juárez, María told me what happened to her in the assembly factory the day she found work there." ""I was working." "I had very little money left." "So when we were sweetening," "I felt somebody was staring at me from behind." "You know, when someone is looking at you, and you just have to turn around, you know?" "So I turned around to where this person was." "He was one of the people who entered the cell where I was arrested, one of the ones working in the rooms." "After the second day I went there, I asked one of the guards if they knew him and he said he didn't." "It looked like he was looking for work there as a security."" ""You do not touch the assembly factories business." "You just do not touch them." "It is publicly known that drugs are getting sold, that a lot of the youngsters are on drugs, it is convenient for the business people that they are on drugs because they produce more and do not get tired." "You do not investigate in an assembly factory, because it is the biggest investment of the mexican government."" ""What was my hypothesis in the beginning, is pretty obvious: narco-traffickers are responsible for this." "Behind all this there is narco-trafficking, because neither the government whichever it may be, nor the honors of the governer in power..." "There is a force, which forms a part of this society which is called narco-trafficking and we have to talk to them." "We have to invite them to the table."" ""Why?"" ""Because they are more powerful than you."" "The corruption has seeped into all ranks of power." "The deaths of hundreds of women have been forgotten." "One of the narco-traffickers arrested was wearing a girl's medallion on his necklace." "So, undoubtedly the authorities here got scared because this does show, that the problem is linked to people on very high ranks, who are involved in these problems and this is the reason why this keeps on continuing."" ""More than you would want to know it, this is the political world, that you regularly see as above you, but indeed it is the underworld, that which is down here, with which it merges, the world of organized crime." "It is just the same." "Unfortunately this is who governs us." "And who regulates us."" "The government is for omission, submission, participation and they are completely responsable." ""They are covering it up, it's them, the ones who should resolve these crimes, because they are entirely responsible for it." "They are violating the right of security, the right of justice, the right of free movement, the right of peace for the families to live in." "Here everybody moves around, being afraid of getting attacked." "All these rights are being violated by the ones who are responsable."" ""What we did was, that we decided that 'The one who is silent agrees', so we decided that the silence would make us complices." "with what had happened to them." "A group of the relatives of the assesinated women formed." "The organisation that we started is called 'Voces sin eco'." "So we are getting along with our own work, we organise raffles, selling things, these small things so we get along, pay gas, pay a taxi to visit a family in the middle of the night," "because we went to see a family at 2 in the morning."" "What is there behind the incompetence and manipulation of the media?" "What is for sure is that this environment allows the crimes to continue." "The relatives of the victims are the ones who continue fighting day after day so there will be justice." "During the 18 months it took to shoot this documentary, more than 50 women were murdered in Ciudad Juárez." "Some of them were students, others mothers, others children." "And some of them worked in the assembly factories." "The ones who make nice TV sets, parts of cars, and accessories fo clothes and shoes." "They are part of many people's future." "Let's give them back the safety for those who are still alive." "Let's get justice for the parents who lost their daughters."