Activist who denounced Mexico border killings dies
source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/26/world/AP-LT-Mexico-Obit-Esther-Chavez.html
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Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who first drew attention to the brutal slayings of women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, has died, her nephew said Saturday. She was 73.
Hector Chavez Arbizu said his aunt died of cancer on Friday and will be buried in Ciudad Juarez, where more than 100 women were strangled and their bodies dumped in the desert or vacant lots in a string of killings that began in the 1990s.
Chavez founded Casa Amiga, a shelter for female victims of violence in this city of 1.5 million across the border from El Paso, Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/26/world/AP-LT-Mexico-Obit-Esther-Chavez...
Hector Chavez Arbizu said his aunt died of cancer on Friday and will be buried in Ciudad Juarez, where more than 100 women were strangled and their bodies dumped in the desert or vacant lots in a string of killings that began in the 1990s.
Chavez founded Casa Amiga, a shelter for female victims of violence in this city of 1.5 million across the border from El Paso, Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/26/world/AP-LT-Mexico-Obit-Esther-Chavez...
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