Body Of Evidence (cont)

Since 1993, about 400 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez. Juarez is the forth largets city in Mexico, a town 1.5 million inhabitants . It is the stronghold of one of the most important latin american drug cartels and boasts one of the worlds busiest border points, crossing into the US. Juarez accomadates hunderds of thousands of workers employed in 250 maquiladoras or vast factories, located along the dessert border line. These assembly plants, relocated from the north America, Asia or Europe, attract workers from all over Mexico. Most of these migrants are young, underqualified women who always accept hard work and are stacked up in slums on the city's outskirts. More than 10 years after th emurder of the first victim discovered in the dessert betwen the US & Mexico, the authorities still cannot set out those responsible for the massacre, or give a convincing explanation for the tragedy.