“Before, Juárez might've felt like the other side of the world. But I think people are consuming the podcast and understanding how it sheds a light on the U.S. as well.”
Oz Woloshyn and Monica Ortiz Uribe, the journalists behind the podcast “Forgotten.”The journalist Mónica Ortiz Uribe has only pleasant memories of a childhood spent between her hometown of El Paso, Texas, and the border city of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico. As a kid, her family attended church on Sundays; once the service was over, her father would clap his hands, rub his palms together, and say, “It’s time for the reward.
Immediately before the coronavirus hit, massive protests took place in Mexico denouncing the femicides and other murders like them in Latin America. Although the pandemic halted this movement, Ortiz Uribe saw similarities between those who took to the streets to speak out against violent deaths and the people who protested in the United States following the killing of“One of the things I hope to do is talk about the parallels between these two movements,” Ortiz Uribe said.
“Our demand for cheap consumer goods has made these women vulnerable in that they, to satisfy that demand, work in these low-wage jobs that makes them vulnerable,” she added. “They have to live in neighborhoods where they don't have sufficient public lighting, if any public lighting at all. They have to take the bus two hours, often by themselves.
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