Art from Anger: Portraits of Ciudad Juarez’s Lost Women
Art from Anger: Portraits of Ciudad Juarez’s Lost Women:
“Guadalupe Veronica Castro was kidnapped on 4 March 1996. She was 17 years old when she was strangled. Her mother, Maria Consuelo Paula Hernandez, moved to Juarez when Veronica was 7 years of age. Veronica was 13 when she started to work, faking her age saying she was older. She worked for 3 years before she went missing. Her goal was to help her mother so she chose to give up school after primary in order to work. She always gave her full pay cheque to Maria Consuelo—all she asked for was 20 pesos for a burger and for her mum to buy her Pantene Shampoo. Veronica was kidnapped and abused for 21 days. She had been drugged and hadn’t been fed. Her torturers cut off her left breast. Her body was found in the Lomas El Poleo body dump.”
Brian Maguire’s 2012 portrait of Guadalupe Veronica Castro (All images are courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin)
