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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2005 
Now That's a Big Hug: 14,000 Embrace in Juarez
 Associated Press
| | Residents of Ciudad Juarez tried to give their city a name for something other than violence Sunday, attempting to set a Guinness World Record with a 15-minute, 14,000-person hug. |
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - More than 14,000 people in this infamously violent city on the U.S.-Mexico border embraced and held on tight Sunday for a 15-minute "Giant Hug," that attempted to set a Guinness World Record.
Mayor Hector Murguia led the gathering, which took place in the shadow of a Mexican flag close to a bridge leading over the border and into neighboring El Paso.
The embrace began with the cry "Mexico, Mexico, Mexico" about midday.
Murguia arrived with Javier Canario Nassar, who verified that 14,200 people participated in the hug.
They planned to send documentation to Guinness officials in London.
The mayor said the event was created to show that Juarez was a city made up of caring and morally sound residents who deserved to be recognized around the world for more than the hundreds of largely unsolved killings of women that have taken place here since 1993.
Federal investigators say nearly 350 women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since 1993.
About 100 killings in the area follow an eerily similar pattern in which young women were sexually assaulted, strangled and dumped in the desert. |
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