'Dear God, Get Her Out of That Country'; Mother Waits in Fear as Daughter Migrates Through Mexico
Six days of not hearing from her daughter, lost somewhere in the expanses of Mexico, a country notorious for violence and the disappearances of men and women.
February 25, 2023 by El Paso Matters
By Corrie Boudreaux
It had been six days. Six days of crying herself to sleep with worry and fear. Six days of not hearing from her daughter, lost somewhere in the expanses of Mexico, a country notorious for violence and the disappearances of men and women.
Irene, 64, a lifelong resident of Lima, Peru, had said goodbye to her daughter Julieta at the local airport less than two weeks earlier. The mother and daughter had been in constant contact since then – until suddenly, all communication from Julieta ceased. “There was a moment when she was on a bus and then – nothing,” Irene said. “I knew something was wrong.”
She didn’t know if Julieta was dead or alive, somewhere along the migratory route from Peru through Mexico that she had hoped would take her to safety and a new life in the United States. Irene had always been extremely close with Julieta, the younger of her two children. She’d raised her in a small house in the Los Olivos district of Peru’s capital where three generations of women – Julieta, Irene and Irene’s mother – still lived together.
Julieta, 29, had been working at a publicity company in Lima for three years, making her way up to a supervisory position. In October, she began receiving threats from an ex-employee whom she had fired. She brushed off the messages as bothersome pranks at first, but the threats escalated. She and her mother began to fear for her safety as the harassment grew, but believed it would be futile to report the threats to authorities.
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