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Ciudad Juarez shaken by rising incidents of missing women

A poster seeking information about Elizabeth Saavedra Cordero,18, is taped to a post in a crowded plaza in downtown Ciudad Juarez. More than two dozen girls and young women have gone missing in the last 18 months in this violent border city, which has been rocked by drug-related violence.

A poster seeking information about Elizabeth Saavedra Cordero,18, is taped to a post in a crowded plaza in downtown Ciudad Juarez. More than two dozen girls and young women have gone missing in the last 18 months in this violent border city, which has been rocked by drug-related violence.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Two dozen teenage girls and young women have gone missing in Ciudad Juarez in the last year and half — stirring dark memories of the killings of hundreds of women that made the border city infamous a decade ago.

Missing persons signs in Juarez

Posters seeking information on missing persons hang on a pedestrian bridge in Juarez. The disappearances, which include two promising university students and girls as young as 13, have stirred dark memories of the killings of hundreds of women that made Ciudad Juarez infamous a decade ago.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Women in Ciudad Juarez

A woman stands on a traffic island to wash windows on stopped cars for pesos on Paseo Trifuno de la Republica in Juarez. Despite growing concerns about the missing women, police have no clear solid evidence of wrongdoing or links among the cases, which have been overshadowed by a vicious drug war that has killed more than 2,500 people in Juarez since the beginning of 2008.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Parents of Monica Alanis

Ricardo Alanis and his wife Olga haven’t seen or heard from their daughter Monica,18, in four months. She disappeared after taking college exams near downtown Juarez.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Yolanda Saenz

Yolanda Saenz holds her youngest daughter, Maria. Her 17-year-old, Brenda Ponce went missing a year ago, on July 22, 2008. “I just was to know what happened so I can find peace,” Saenz said.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Aiben Rivas

Aiben Rivas says the Mexican police have done nothing to find his daughter Hilda,16, who disappeared Feb. 25, 2008, after chatting with a friend downtown.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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