Domestic Violence in Mexico (La violencia domestica en Mexico)

By Alex Kannan

Music: "Tibet" by Burkhard Dallwitz from Peter Weir's "The Way Back."

Sources:

Yvette Lopez, Sleeping with the Enemy: Mexico and Domestic Violence, Out for a Rude Awakening or Rising in Time? 25 WR LR 1, 7 (2003), citing Hispanics-Mexico: One in Two Mexican Women Physically or Psychologically Abused, EFE News Service, Global News Wire, Aug. 8, 2001, quoting Mercedes Barquet, counselor at the National Women's Institute.

Katelyn Beaty, "On the Border of Misery and Hope," Christianity Today (Oct. 2009), P.43-49 (47).

Bonita Meyersfield, Domestic Violence, Health, and International Law, 22 EMORY IL R 61, 108 (2008).

Deborah M. Weismann, The Political Economy of Violence: Toward an Understanding of the Gender-based Murders of Ciudad Juarez, 30 NC JIL 795, 803 (2005), citing Jeff Barnet, Police Under Fire as Violence, Corruption Continue, Frontera NorteSur (July 2000), at http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/jul_ aug00/feat2.html (reviewing statistics from the Department of Legal Medicine in the state attorney general's office).

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