Border Mothers Angry Over Mexican Nominee for AG
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September 10, 2009
| | Victoria Salas, mother of a victim of women killings, demonstrates against the designation of new Federal Attorney General Arturo Chavez Chavez in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. The T-shirt reads in Spanish: "Mothers looking for justice". (AP/Guillermo Arias) | |
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — A group of women whose daughters were murdered in a violent Mexican border city are protesting President Felipe Calderon's choice for new attorney general.
Protesters say the nominee, Arturo Chavez, did little to solve dozens of rapes and murders of women in Ciudad Juarez when he was Chihuahua state attorney general from 1996 to 1998.
About 25 women picketed Wednesday outside the federal attorney general's office in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
Ester Luna, whose 15-year-old daughter was killed in 1997, said Chavez "didn't care about those killings, (so) what makes him fit for this post?"
Chavez was nominated Monday to replace Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora. |
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