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Juarez’s vigilante ‘Diana, hunter of bus drivers,’ goes all ‘Thelma and Louise’
09.06.2013
05:14 pm
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The now gone “Diana” Facebook page

It sounds like a comic book plot or like something from a Tarantino movie. But it’s real.

A middle-aged woman wearing all black and a blond wig has taken it upon herself to avenge the on-going sexual abuse of female bus passengers in the city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, right across the border from El Paso, Texas (the city across The Bridge in the FX crime drama).

Last Wednesday and Thursday “Diana” boarded a public bus and shot the driver in the head with a pistol and walked away. A witness claims she told the second victim, “You guys think you’re real bad, don’t you?” before shooting him.

She then sent e-mails to Mexican media outlets with the handle “Diana, the hunter of bus drivers.”  There was a Facebook page under that name, now removed.

She wrote in her e-mail:

I myself and other women have suffered in silence but we can’t stay quiet anymore. We were victims of sexual violence by the drivers on the night shift on the routes to the maquilas [assembly plants in the city]. I am the instrument of vengeance for several women.

Several bus drivers were arrested in connection with the mass rape and murder of women in the city from the 1990’s to the early 2000’s. Hundreds of women disappeared after boarding public buses. Their bodies were found weeks or months later, dumped in the desert or vacant lots.

Local and Chihuahua state police are planning on putting undercover agents on city buses to hasten the capture of Diana. Maybe they should also consider devoting more energy and resources to ensuring the safety of women just trying to get to work.

Via The Guardian

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Posted by Kimberly J. Bright
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09.06.2013
05:14 pm
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