Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2025-11-04
Books mentioned on CLASSIC: Interview Segment: Women of Juarez, with Oz Woloshyn
Juarez, located just over the US-Mexico border, has an ongoing crisis that hasn't made the news: hundreds of women have gone missing, and many of the ones who disappear are later found dead, their wrists often bound, with strange symbols carved on their bodies.
Oz Woloshyn discussed The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women by Diana Washington Valdez.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a classic American novel depicting the hardships of Oklahoma families migrating to California during the Great Depression.
Discussed“The factory started in Huarez in the in the '60s, but it was in the mid '9s after NAFTA was signed that they really boomed. And you had just this tremendous demand for labor. And a bit like during the the Grapes of Wrath time, there were recruiters going into the interior and saying, 'Come to Huare.'”
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The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women
Discussed“The reporter who's done the most work on this story is called Diana Washington Valdez and she wrote a book called The Killing Field, Harvest of Women. And her big point was these are not random victims.”
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