Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Jurez

Since 1993 more than six hundred girls and women have been brutally slain in Ciudad Juarez in internationally condemned violence for which no one has been arrested. Nancy Pineda-Madrids powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violencebased on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juarez attempts to understand the cultural economic and even religious factors that feed the violence. She detects in the social suffering of the women there are yearning for release justice and healing in their quest for salvation through solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce to the violence --