The Dead Women of Juárez

 "--- More than 411 women have been murdered and more than 500 disappeared among what is known today as "The Dead Women of Juárez," cases of mostly young, pretty women often found mutilated in the desert around Ciudad Juárez and elsewhere in the state of Chihuahua." http://crm.ncmonline.com . 

"Many are strangled, and then stabbed repeatedly.” (4.) 

In terms of the severe abuse and violence of women in Mexico, the problem is the most alarming in Juárez. "In Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, an alarming four hundred and thirty-eight women have been victims of and murder, not to mention over a hundred women who remain missing.” (2.) The figures may well be higher (2-5,000).

There have been few answers. The recent overall picture of Cd. Juárez is bleak. How does the picture stand now? The extreme abuse has been documented in several ways: 1.) Investigative, 2.) Mass Media and 3.) Legal solutions. All have been exhausted.

1.) Investigative solutions are intermittent. National response is corrupted as some of the abuse is actually from federal and local authorities. “Police are torturing people into confessing to serious crimes and these confessions are then accepted as evidence in court.” (5.) Of all the known perpetrators, there has been only one legal conviction, Middle Eastern killer Sharif Abdul Latif Sharif, now dead, formerly of the cult group Las Contras (Rebels).

2.) Mass media solutions are ingenious but hypothetical. There are several theories compiled by investigative journalist Diana Washington Valdez of The El Paso Times.

”Mexican law enforcement officials allege a cabal of rich and powerful men are behind numerous deaths. The officials said they doubt these men will be brought to justice because of their access to power.

Experts including former FBI profiler Robert Ressler believe one or more serial killers are at work in the border region. They are slaying the young women ‘for the thrill of it.’

Mexican authorities charge some of the women were victims of the Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel, which routinely kills anyone who knows too much or gets in the way of constant power struggles.

Families of the many victims believe corrupt police and officials protect killers. There are theories that  women are being women killed in satanic rituals. Or they are being sacrificed to harvest organs for transplant.” (6.)

3.) Legal solutions are meager. If any of the theories are true then why have the numbers of convictions been inadequate? If there has been only one conviction in some 2-5,000 cases then something doesn’t make sense. Why? Often, nothing is done. The problem isn't only with women either. “There were no developments in the 2001 abduction and killing of Raul Varela Meza, Juan Antonio Chavez, Eduardo Ramirez, and Lorenzo Barraza in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.” (8.)

The reason is that disciplined inquiry is scanty in investigative, mass media and legal speculation. Even the facts aren’t identified in completeness. For example, women’s slayings occurred against a backdrop of violence that took the lives of at least 1,600 men. (7.) The fact deconstructs the popular focus. For unknown reasons, even the F.B.I. has focused on the women who were rap ed and murdered not men. It cannot be stressed too much that there are at least five times the unresolved cases of male victims. Why the profound lack of disciplined inquiry? Something further is imperative.

Project 14 proposes that disciplined inquiry shall be conducted in several areas: 1.) Research objectives, 2.) Research methods, 3.) Research design, 4.) Data gathering, 5.) Data analysis and 6.) Interlinking organizations internationally.

1.) The Research Objective:  Analytical research visits to locations throughout Mexico may be indicated for serious and in-depth psychological research using the scientific method in several concrete steps:  Current research literature and significance, Objectives and hypotheses, Methods and approaches, Data perspectives and Results, solutions, discussion and publication.

2.) The Research Method: If the overall objective is an analytical

research comparison then the study needs a solid and practical

foundational basis in traditional psychological theory. A methodological

research design for comparison between cases of and murder shall be

created with the foundational point of reference as General Systems

Theory and The Psychology of Consciousness (dreamwork) as applied

to psychological warfare.

Why psychology? Terror is psychological. The problem in Mexico is not in the investigative, media or legal arena as their limited success has shown. The problem is psychological.

3.) The Research Design has to be a psychological methodology in

 standard research analysis (General Systems Theory and The

 Psychology of Consciousness).

4.) Data Gathering: Research data gathering and analysis shall use The Scientific Method defined as modular: 1.) Current research literature and significance, 2.) Objectives and hypotheses, 3.) Methods and approaches, 4.) Data perspectives and 5.) Results, solutions, discussion and publication. 

5.) Data Analysis: The data analysis shall scrutinize material using two or more standard Psychological techniques from General Systems Theory (i.e. Cybernetics, Critical Systems Heuristics) and several practices from The Psychology of Consciousness.

6.) Time shall be spent in dialogue interlinking academic

institutions/systems across borders to create lasting contacts.

International Site:

The site is the Institute of Medicine in Mexico (Psic. Sergio Rueda). A professional association exists.

Central institutions for additional research sources are Fundación Internacional para la Investigación de la Naturaleza del Hombre SC. (International Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man) or Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avazanda de la Conducta in collaboration with U.S. host Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California (Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.). It is arranged that supportive material exists online at Harvard University. This applicant is a H2O Project Leader at Berkman Center of Harvard Law School and this proposal problem is a pilot research analysis at Harvard.

Additional International Support: Organizations have been approached

 for cooperation as advisors in serious research such as construction of

tests of validity, interpretation, results, key aspects of theme, research

examination, analysis, case study, and theoretical framework for

understanding, constructive action and publication using advanced

educational technology.

Some of the international linkage work would be expected to last beyond the scope of the Fulbright. For example, a formal think tank laboratory is created that shall have lasting duration in the interlinking of academic institutions and systems internationally.

Citations:

Introductory quote: http://crm.ncmonline.com