New Juárez High School to Accept City's Brightest Students
In August, Ciudad Juarez's 120 best junior-high graduates will begin taking classes at a new high school intended to prepare them to attend the world's best universities, said José Reyes Ferriz, Cd. Juárez interim mayor.
In addition to the usual high school subjects taught in Cd. Juárez, the Preparatoria Central will offer a program heavy in English, business classes, and computer and technology instruction. The city's best teachers will teach at the new school.
There will be a computer for each student that attends the school and class periods will be longer than at other schools. Intensive English will also be part of the school's program.
Students will receive a scholarship equivalent to US$100 per month and will be served two meals a day. Students will not have to pay the usual registration fees and will receive all their school supplies for free.
The director of the school will be Alfredo Cervantes García, former head of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.
To help students that are about to graduate from the program, the school will have a department devoted to getting scholarships for students, said Reyes.
Reyes also stated that the school's program is being paid for by private sources.
Enrollment at Central will be limited to public school graduates. Students will be selected on the basis of an entrance exam and economic need as well. The school's scholarships were created to make sure that no student has to drop out of the program due to economic hardship.
Source: El Diario, June 12, 2002. Article by Horacio Carrasco Soto.
One Femicide Case Closed, Another Opened in Ciudad Juárez
Verónica Isela Alvarado Torres, age 20, was arrested on May 27, 2002 for the mid-May murder of her thirteen-year old sister, Zuly Olivia Alvarado Torres.
Zuly Alvarado's body was found in a field in the Juárez Valley where the bodies of other young rape-murder victims have been found in previous years. However, police investigators said from the beginning that Zuly Alvarado had not been raped and that they did not consider her to be one of the city's serial-killing victims.
Police also said that their initial investigation was into Alvarado's family and noted that her mother had been previously arrested for prostituting some of her daughters, including Zuly Alvarado.
It was also noted by police that although the girl had been missing for more than a week before her body was found, her family had not reported her absence to police.
According to the Cd. Juárez newspaper El Diario, Verónica Alvarado told a judge that she went out for a walk with her sister and tried to give her some advice. The two began arguing and her younger sister hit her, she said. Verónica Alvarado then said that she strangled her sister.
State police told El Diario that Verónica Alvarado changed her story in front of the judge. According to police, Verónica Alvarado told them that the two were fighting over a 37-year old man.
Earlier in the investigation, Verónica Alvarado told police that this man was her sister's killer but police questioned him and determined that he was not responsible for the girl's death, a police source said.
Body Found in City Center
The body of an unidentified, 25-year old woman was found in downtown Cd. Juárez in the Plaza Cervantina in the early morning hours of June 2, 2002. The woman had been raped and died from a broken neck. Police are not sure if the victim was raped and killed in the Plaza or elsewhere.
Police were alerted to the crime at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday morning by an unidentified prostitute that had gone through the plaza and heard someone being beaten. She then saw what appeared to be two people having sexual relations and called police.
Police are investigating the case and said that just hours prior to finding the body, they had gone through plaza and arrested more than 20 people for drug and other crimes.
Source: El Diario, May 28 & June 3, 2002. Articles by Javier Saucedo Alcalá and Armando Rodríguez, respectively.
May 30, 2002
Ciudad Juárez Public Universities Do Not Meet Demand
Ciudad Juárez's three public universities, the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (Tec) and the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACh), will only accept 61.59 % of applicants this year, according to an article in the Cd. Juárez newspaper, El Diario. Students not admitted to these institutions will have to wait another year before reapplying or will have to enroll in a private university.
More than 3,700 students will sit for the UACJ entrance exam but just 2,242 will be admitted.
The situation is even more desperate at UACh where 700 people will take the entrance exam but only 200 students will be accepted. The UACh exam costs 430 pesos (US$46). Students are admitted on the basis of their scores.
A Tec spokesperson said that few people are turned away from that institution.
Source: El Diario, May 30, 2002. Article by Guadalupe Félix. |
June 24, 2002
Residents of Veracruz Warned Not to Come to Job-Scarce Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juarez's Fundación Castro de la Rosa is recommending to
residents of the Mexican state of Veracruz that they not immigrate to Cd.
Juárez to seek jobs. David de la Rosa Castro, president of the Fundación
which is dedicated to helping people from Veracruz when they arrive in Cd.
Juárez, said that his organization began its current anti-immigration
campaign after it became aware of bus lines and trucking companies that
were promising Veracruz residents jobs in the Cd. Juárez maquiladora
industry.
According to De la Rosa, employment conditions in Cd. Juárez are not
what they were a few years ago and people should not come to the northern
border city if they do not have a guaranteed job awaiting them. He
especially warned people not to come to the city if they do not have
family in Cd. Juárez to help support them upon their arrival.
Much of the immigration to the northern Mexican border states is
from the poorer, eastern coastal state of Veracruz. People from Veracruz
go to northern border states like Chihuahua and Tamaulipas because they
believe they can improve their quality of life with a steady paycheck from
the low-wage, assembly plants known as maquiladoras.
The Fundación, which works in coordination with the governments
of Veracruz and Chihuahua, is announcing the Cd. Juárez job shortage on
Veracruz's state radio network. Part of its radio programs are comprised
of interviews with Cd. Juárez chamber of commerce officials and
maquiladora association leaders who talk about the current labor situation
in their city.
De la Rosa emphasized that the recommendation to would-be immigrants to
stay in Veracruz is based solely on Cd. Juárez economic conditions and
has nothing to do with issues of public safety and crime.
Source: El Diario, June 22, 2002. Article by Gabriela Minjáres.
June 18, 2002
Mexico's World Cup Loss Leads to Juárez Violence on International Bridge
Disappointed by Mexico's World Cup defeat to the US national team,
drunken Ciudad Juárez soccer fans turned violent as they rallied around
that city's giant Mexican flag known as the
"macrobandera."
A photographer for the El Paso Times told the Cd. Juárez newspaper El
Diario that people assembled at the flag began pushing him either
because he was taking photos and/or because they thought him to be a US
citizen. The photographer also commented that the rioters were all very
drunk.
A short time later, in the early hours of Monday, June 17, the enraged
fans left the area of the macrobandera and headed to the Cordoba
international bridge that connects El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. There they
threw rocks at cars that were waiting to enter the US. At least one woman
was taken to the hospital for her injuries and other people were treated
by emergency workers after they had crossed into El Paso. Dozens of cars
were also damaged by the rock throwing.
In response to the soccer-related violence, an INS official said that
she ordered staff to open more lanes on the bridge. This allowed cars to
proceed more quickly into the US and out of danger from the rioters.
Source: El Diario, June 18, 2002. Article by Javier Saucedo &
Julián Reséndiz.
June 14, 2002
New Juárez High School to Accept City's Brightest Students
In August, Ciudad Juarez's 120 best junior-high graduates
will begin taking classes at a new high school intended to prepare
them to attend the world's best universities, said José
Reyes Ferriz, Cd. Juárez interim mayor.
In addition to the usual high school subjects taught in Cd.
Juárez, the Preparatoria Central will offer a program
heavy in English, business classes, and computer and technology
instruction. The city's best teachers will teach at the new school.
There will be a computer for each student that attends the school
and class periods will be longer than at other schools. Intensive
English will also be part of the school's program.
Students will receive a scholarship equivalent to US$100 per
month and will be served two meals a day. Students will not have
to pay the usual registration fees and will receive all their
school supplies for free.
The director of the school will be Alfredo Cervantes García,
former head of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.
To help students that are about to graduate from the program,
the school will have a department devoted to getting scholarships
for students, said Reyes.
Reyes also stated that the school's program is being paid
for by private sources.
Enrollment at Central will be limited to public school graduates.
Students will be selected on the basis of an entrance exam and
economic need as well. The school's scholarships were created
to make sure that no student has to drop out of the program due
to economic hardship.
Source: El Diario, June 12, 2002. Article by Horacio Carrasco
Soto.
June 4, 2002
One Femicide Case Closed, Another Opened in Ciudad Juárez
Verónica Isela Alvarado Torres, age 20, was arrested
on May 27, 2002 for the mid-May murder of her thirteen-year old
sister, Zuly Olivia Alvarado Torres.
Zuly Alvarado's body was found in a field in the Juárez
Valley where the bodies of other young rape-murder victims have
been found in previous years. However, police investigators said
from the beginning that Zuly Alvarado had not been raped and
that they did not consider her to be one of the city's serial-killing
victims.
Police also said that their initial investigation was into
Alvarado's family and noted that her mother had been previously
arrested for prostituting some of her daughters, including Zuly
Alvarado.
It was also noted by police that although the girl had been missing
for more than a week before her body was found, her family had
not reported her absence to police.
According to the Cd. Juárez newspaper El Diario, Verónica
Alvarado told a judge that she went out for a walk with her sister
and tried to give her some advice. The two began arguing and
her younger sister hit her, she said. Verónica Alvarado
then said that she strangled her sister.
State police told El Diario that Verónica Alvarado
changed her story in front of the judge. According to police,
Verónica Alvarado told them that the two were fighting
over a 37-year old man.
Earlier in the investigation, Verónica Alvarado told
police that this man was her sister's killer but police questioned
him and determined that he was not responsible for the girl's
death, a police source said.
Body Found in City Center
The body of an unidentified, 25-year old woman was found
in downtown Cd. Juárez in the Plaza Cervantina in the
early morning hours of June 2, 2002. The woman had been raped
and died from a broken neck. Police are not sure if the victim
was raped and killed in the Plaza or elsewhere.
Police were alerted to the crime at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday morning
by an unidentified prostitute that had gone through the plaza
and heard someone being beaten. She then saw what appeared to
be two people having sexual relations and called police.
Police are investigating the case and said that just hours prior
to finding the body, they had gone through plaza and arrested
more than 20 people for drug and other crimes.
Source: El Diario, May 28 & June 3, 2002. Articles by Javier
Saucedo Alcalá and Armando Rodríguez, respectively.
May 30, 2002
Ciudad Juárez Public Universities Do Not Meet Demand
Ciudad Juárez's three public universities, the Universidad
Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), the Instituto
Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (Tec) and the Universidad
Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACh), will only accept 61.59 %
of applicants this year, according to an article in the Cd. Juárez
newspaper, El Diario. Students not admitted to these institutions
will have to wait another year before reapplying or will have
to enroll in a private university.
More than 3,700 students will sit for the UACJ entrance exam
but just 2,242 will be admitted.
The situation is even more desperate at UACh where 700 people
will take the entrance exam but only 200 students will be accepted.
The UACh exam costs 430 pesos (US$46). Students are admitted
on the basis of their scores.
A Tec spokesperson said that few people are turned away from
that institution.
Source: El Diario, May 30, 2002. Article by Guadalupe Félix.
New Juárez High School to Accept City's Brightest Students
In August, Ciudad Juarez's 120 best junior-high graduates will begin taking classes at a new high school intended to prepare them to attend the world's best universities, said José Reyes Ferriz, Cd. Juárez interim mayor.
In addition to the usual high school subjects taught in Cd. Juárez, the Preparatoria Central will offer a program heavy in English, business classes, and computer and technology instruction. The city's best teachers will teach at the new school.
There will be a computer for each student that attends the school and class periods will be longer than at other schools. Intensive English will also be part of the school's program.
Students will receive a scholarship equivalent to US$100 per month and will be served two meals a day. Students will not have to pay the usual registration fees and will receive all their school supplies for free.
The director of the school will be Alfredo Cervantes García, former head of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.
To help students that are about to graduate from the program, the school will have a department devoted to getting scholarships for students, said Reyes.
Reyes also stated that the school's program is being paid for by private sources.
Enrollment at Central will be limited to public school graduates. Students will be selected on the basis of an entrance exam and economic need as well. The school's scholarships were created to make sure that no student has to drop out of the program due to economic hardship.
Source: El Diario, June 12, 2002. Article by Horacio Carrasco Soto.
One Femicide Case Closed, Another Opened in Ciudad Juárez
Verónica Isela Alvarado Torres, age 20, was arrested on May 27, 2002 for the mid-May murder of her thirteen-year old sister, Zuly Olivia Alvarado Torres.
Zuly Alvarado's body was found in a field in the Juárez Valley where the bodies of other young rape-murder victims have been found in previous years. However, police investigators said from the beginning that Zuly Alvarado had not been raped and that they did not consider her to be one of the city's serial-killing victims.
Police also said that their initial investigation was into Alvarado's family and noted that her mother had been previously arrested for prostituting some of her daughters, including Zuly Alvarado.
It was also noted by police that although the girl had been missing for more than a week before her body was found, her family had not reported her absence to police.
According to the Cd. Juárez newspaper El Diario, Verónica Alvarado told a judge that she went out for a walk with her sister and tried to give her some advice. The two began arguing and her younger sister hit her, she said. Verónica Alvarado then said that she strangled her sister.
State police told El Diario that Verónica Alvarado changed her story in front of the judge. According to police, Verónica Alvarado told them that the two were fighting over a 37-year old man.
Earlier in the investigation, Verónica Alvarado told police that this man was her sister's killer but police questioned him and determined that he was not responsible for the girl's death, a police source said.
Body Found in City Center
The body of an unidentified, 25-year old woman was found in downtown Cd. Juárez in the Plaza Cervantina in the early morning hours of June 2, 2002. The woman had been raped and died from a broken neck. Police are not sure if the victim was raped and killed in the Plaza or elsewhere.
Police were alerted to the crime at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday morning by an unidentified prostitute that had gone through the plaza and heard someone being beaten. She then saw what appeared to be two people having sexual relations and called police.
Police are investigating the case and said that just hours prior to finding the body, they had gone through plaza and arrested more than 20 people for drug and other crimes.
Source: El Diario, May 28 & June 3, 2002. Articles by Javier Saucedo Alcalá and Armando Rodríguez, respectively.
May 30, 2002
Ciudad Juárez Public Universities Do Not Meet Demand
Ciudad Juárez's three public universities, the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (Tec) and the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACh), will only accept 61.59 % of applicants this year, according to an article in the Cd. Juárez newspaper, El Diario. Students not admitted to these institutions will have to wait another year before reapplying or will have to enroll in a private university.
More than 3,700 students will sit for the UACJ entrance exam but just 2,242 will be admitted.
The situation is even more desperate at UACh where 700 people will take the entrance exam but only 200 students will be accepted. The UACh exam costs 430 pesos (US$46). Students are admitted on the basis of their scores.
A Tec spokesperson said that few people are turned away from that institution.
Source: El Diario, May 30, 2002. Article by Guadalupe Félix. |
