"In 2009, more than twice as many people were killed in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez (population 1.3 million) than in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago (total population 15 million) combined. The violence, much of which is related to the drug trade, is hard to fathom—but not impossible to count.
Since 2008, Molly Molloy has done this macabre accounting on her Google Newsgroup “The Frontera List.” Working from reports in Juarez’s daily newspapers, Molloy, a reference librarian at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, tallies the number of people killed each day, and then translates and transmits the grim news to the listserv."
Like the NYT Magazine's 8 Questions, only not at all glib. This woman is heroic and plainspoken and magnificently clear-headed. The interviewer has the good sense to simply let her talk.
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