Three Cheers for Soledad Jarquin Edgar!

It isn't easy writing about violence against women in Mexico. Particularly when editors told Jarquin Edgar that writing about abortion rights and contraception "had to do with the devil." She's a brave woman who has her nose to the grind on the population's most pressing issue: violence against women. Even though Bush is trying earmark $1 billion for drug-related crimes and violence in Mexico, Jarquin Edgar knows the bigger story is domestic violence and gender-related homicide. There is an average of 5 women murdered each month in Oaxaca alone, and Jarquin Edgar has made it her business to document it and write it about on the front page of Las Caracolas and El Imparcial. Jarquin Edgar is brave and inspiring, and is part of a growing movement among Latina women in Central and South America and the Caribbean. For more great reading, check out CIMAC Noticias.