In a story that could be pulled right out of Roberto Bolaño's haunting posthumous novel 2666, about a thinly-disguised Ciudad Juarez — where the violent murders of hundreds of women go unsolved for years — the Mexican government publicly apologized yesterday to an indigenous woman named Valentina Rosendo Cantu, who,…
Emily Blunt Politely Declines The Photoshop, Thanks
- Emily Blunt told British Elle that Photoshop is over-used. "I don't like it when they stretch you out and make you all long and skinny. It makes you look like a Barbie. Who the hell looks like that?" [Elle UK]
But How Will Rampant Drug Violence Affect Spring Break?
Texas has issued a warning on spring break — and it's not about margaritas or girls going wild. Rather, students should avoid violence-ravaged Mexican border cities, especially Ciudad Juarez, where 2,600 people were killed in 2009. [CNN]
Mexico's Missing Girls Remain A Mystery
In the past year, two dozen young women have disappeared from their homes in Juarez, Mexico. According to LA Times reporter Ken Ellingwood, "The streets of Juarez are swallowing up the young and pretty."
