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The ‘city of lost girls’ is the terrifying nickname for Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican border town, where more than 600 women have been raped and murdered over the past 15 years.

The story captured the imagination of a campaigning journalist on the El Paso Times. Journalist Diana Washington Valdez made it her business to lift the lid on what turned out to be a complex web of drug cartels and political corruption.

She joined Rageh Omaar to talk about her work that inspired not only the Jennifer Lopez movie Border Town but also a documentary by filmmaker Rodrigo Vasquez and reporter Sandra Jordan: The City of Lost Girls.

Diana shares the insights she gained investigating the murders and explains what happened in Ciudad Juarez since the documentary was shot in 2003.

Mexican soldiers patrol the streets of this border city as part of the federal government’s crackdown on the violent drug cartels.

Dozens of federal police and h