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Book on women being killed in Tijuana - CITY OF OMENS: A Search for the Missing

tbot1102

California

Has anyone heard of this which I just saw reviewed in New York Times?

Name of the book is - CITY OF OMENS: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands (Bloomsbury, $28)

Here are some of the things the review said -

- Life is cheap in the Mexican border city. Hundreds of women die each year in the city of Tijuana and along the highway of the Baja coast, many of them from domestic violence, drug overdoses and H.I.V.-related diseases associated with the sex trade.

- Other bodies, often teenagers, turn up “bound and mutilated.” Still others simply disappear. The author refers to all these deaths as “femicide".

- This is attributed to the collapse of Tijuana’s thriving vice economy after 2009, when the city became off-limits to American sailors and Marines. No longer protected by the Yankees, working girls became fair game for predators along the border.

- These are only a few of the latest count (in 2013) of 1,200-plus women who die under suspicious circumstances every year in the Mexican state of Baja California, the real number is much higher.