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- - - - He doesn’t want people to know what is going on in respect to the murders so every now and then father Francis gets threatening calls telling him to mind his own business.
      - The Mayor ordered Cecilia's clothes to be burned because allegedly a virus found on her clothes and people were complaining about the smell.
    - - “¿Por que hay tanto humo? Asked the priest. ¿Queman los cuerpos?
        “No , they’re not burning the bodies,” the policeman said. It’s the clothes. They had it piled up on the patio, and it got infested with rats.” pg.45“
      - Police are tampering crime scenes and evidence resulting in a lack of evidence which is why the FBI isn't able to intervene. They also aren't really investigating the murders.
      - "Two women alone in a police car in Juarez? He floored the gas pedal and the tires spun a cloud of dust around the car." pg.42
  - - - The nurse got $50 to fake a Forth Bliss birth certificate. She was one of Father Francis connections.
    - - Apart from being Ivon's cousin, she is also a social worker. She works with troubled teens/women. When they become pregnant and their jobs at maquiladoras are at risk or in a tough situation, she puts together illegal adoptions with the help of others.
    - - Father Francis is a priest that is paid $200-300+ to attend a meeting where young girls and their families discusses illegal adoptions. People were so religious they believed if a priest were present and approved, they wouldn't be committing a sin.
- - - - Lack of urgency for justice. Families and friends of the missing girls spend more time looking for answers than the police.
      - The murderers mutilate the bodies of the women and leave them to rot, regardless of location and who may come across them.
      - The stories of the murders had minimal coverage for dozens of bodies. Once major coverage begins it is predicted to be used more for ratings than actual awareness
- - - - In a report made in 2009, at least 1700 have been killed since 1993, on the Mexican border with the United States.
    - - The first "killer" was arrested in 1995. "She turned her attention back to the article, reading about Egyptian Chemist who'd been arrested in 1995 for allegedly killing at least one of the women himself and masterminding the numbers of seven others through a gang of accomplices called Los Rebelds." pp4
      - In 1995, the Los Rebleds group were arrested, "masterminding the numbers of seven others through a gang of accomplices called Los Rebelds." pp4
      - Also, in the same year, another group appeared called " The Ruteros of Ciudad Juarez". They were also arrested in the same year.
      - In 2015, five men found guilty of being involved in the kidnapping and killing of women, and there has been a large reduction in the number of attacks. However, they still continue today.
    - - Media
        
        In the media today, this wave of femicides no longer receives the same coverage as it did before. Also, the media play down the crisis.
      - Social aspect
        
        People deny and lie about the crisis.
- - - - Rejection from her parents
        
        Ma
        
        Ivons' mother did not approve of her lifestyle, her choice of clothing, moving away from home and being a lesbian.
        
        She blames Ivon for the the death of her husband because he was so upset of Ivon's sexual orientation that he started to drink again and became an alcoholic
        
        "Es una virgüenza. That's all you do: embarrass me in front of the whole family. It's not enough that you went away to college and turned into a marimacha with that Women's Studies degree, or that your father took up drinking again." pg.66
        
        Tries to sabbatoge her relationship by telling Ivons girlfriend that Ivon is a Mujeriga, a womanizer
      - Education
        
        She attended Iowa College and earn a PhD in Women's Studies and landed her first job at Saint Ignatius College in Los Angeles
        
        She did not want to attend University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
      - Her happiness
        
        Raquel
        
        Ivon's ex-girlfriend who she dated for 4 years, and who broke her heart.
    - - Irene
        
        Irene is Ivons younger sister, they have a very close relationship. Despite their mother being against it, Irene plans on attending school in California and live with Ivon & Brigit. Irene stands up for Ivon when they are arguing with their mother.
        
        Irene is intelligent, "you know I'm going to be valedictorian and I made captain of the swim team"
      - Idea of Motherhood
        
        Brigit
        
        Brigit is Ivons Wife, she is a gringa and after 6 years, they are planning on adopting a baby together! Because the process alone could take months or even years, Ivon decides to turn to her cousin Ximena, a social worker for help adopting an at risk child.
        
        Little boy in bookstore
        
        Ivon fantasizes about having a little boy wanting her to supervise him in the kid's section of the bookstore, who's going to be lonely because she is not standing there right next him.
        
        Mapi
      - Cecilia
        
        Cecelia the mother of Ivon's unborn child that she was planning to adopt. Unfortunately Cecelia was brutally murdered, stabbed 17 times as a victim of the maquiladora murders
      - Jorgito
        
        Three-year old boy who's mother, Elsa, is dying of ovarian cancer who Ximena insists would be a perfect plan b for Ivon & Brigit
      - Maquiladora Murders
        
        She felt ashamed that she had missed out on so much of her hometown and as native of the border, she had not a single clue about the "maquiladora murders" until she read about it on her plane ride over and experienced it with Cecilia and she needed to find who did this to her