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João Figueira
Rubi Fraire was a young woman from Ciudad Juárez who was murdered by her boyfriend, Zeta Cartel member Sergio Barraza, at the age of 16. Fraire’s mother, Maria Escobedo, dedicated her life to winning justice for her daughter, but was ultimately murdered for her activism. Fraire and Escobedo’s deaths demonstrate how the drug war spreads senseless violence and redistributes power from government officials to criminal gangs.
Rubi Fraire Quotes in Chasing the Scream
The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Rubi Fraire or refer to Rubi Fraire . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
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That is when Marisela heard rumors that started to make it possible to make sense of this whole story. Sergio, she was told, is a Zeta. That is why the police would not touch him. That is why he kept escaping. When Marisela got her final lead on where Sergio was, the police were finally honest with her. “If he’s with the Zetas, we’re not going to be able to do anything, because they run the state,” they told her. “If we do a bust, it’s because they allow us to do it. We don’t bust people just like that.” They were apologetic, but they explained that the Zetas give them money if they serve them and death if they don’t.
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Rubi Fraire Quotes in Chasing the Scream
The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Rubi Fraire or refer to Rubi Fraire . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 10
Quotes
That is when Marisela heard rumors that started to make it possible to make sense of this whole story. Sergio, she was told, is a Zeta. That is why the police would not touch him. That is why he kept escaping. When Marisela got her final lead on where Sergio was, the police were finally honest with her. “If he’s with the Zetas, we’re not going to be able to do anything, because they run the state,” they told her. “If we do a bust, it’s because they allow us to do it. We don’t bust people just like that.” They were apologetic, but they explained that the Zetas give them money if they serve them and death if they don’t.
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