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UTEP Expert Joins District Judges to Address the Impact of Juarez Violence on El Paso’s Domestic Abuse Cases

            During the last couple of months, the Family Violence Unit of the El Paso County Attorney's Office has been helping an increasing number of victims who have been threatened with being taken to Ciudad Juarez to be killed by their spouses.

             The restless violence present in Ciudad Juarez, along with the chronicles of hundreds of femicides, has increased the impact of those threats on victims of domestic violence in El Paso.   

              With the objective of increasing awareness among the El Paso legal community about the link between the violence in Juarez and the cases of domestic violence in our community, El Paso County Attorney José R. Rodríguez is hosting Dr. Kathleen Staudt in an effort to create a dialog amongst judges of the 34th Judicial District.  

Kathleen (Kathy) Staudt, a professor of political science at UTEP with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, will be talking about "Femicide-Borders as magnets for Violence: General Suggestions for legal institutions working with victims of family violence on the border."

The presentation is not open to the public, but interested members of the media may attend.

WHO:       County Attorney's Family Violence Unit

WHAT:     Presentation "Femicide-Borders as magnets for Violence"

WHEN:     Friday February 27, 2006 at 11:30 a.m.

WHERE:  El Paso County Courthouse, Room. 306

500 E. San Antonio

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Juarez Threats Press Release.pdf

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Elhiu Dominguez was born in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, México. He moved to the Ciudad Juárez - El Paso area in 1988 to study Mass Communications at the Chihuahua State University (UACH). He later obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1994. Elhiu began his professional career in 1989 as a reporter for Norte de Juarez newspaper. In 1994 he was employed at Canal 26, the local Univision affiliate in El Paso, as photojournalist, producer, and later as a reporter. In 1998, after a brief period as Weekend Assignments Editor at KDBC Channel 4, the local CBS affiliate, Elhiu returned to work at Univision 26 as a senior reporter. He was later assigned in 1999 as the Texas-New Mexico correspondent for the Univision Network’s news magazine “Primer Impacto”, a position that he held until his resignation in 2005 to become Assignments Editor at KFOX Channel 14, the local FOX network affiliate. Elhiu left KFOX in 2006 to become the Public Affairs Officer for the El Paso County Attorney’s Office. During his more than 15 years of experience as journalist, Elhiu has received numerous awards, among them “La Columna de Oro” for a special series of stories regarding the murders of women in Juárez, and several first and second place awards by the New Mexico and Texas Associated Press in the categories of investigative reporting, breaking news, and feature stories.