COLOMBIA: SINGER JUANES TO PARTICIPATE IN A MOVIE WITH JENNIFER LOPEZ AND ANTONIO BANDERAS ABOUT THE MURDERS IN JUAREZ CITY, MEXICO

Record ID: 584091

  • Title: COLOMBIA: SINGER JUANES TO PARTICIPATE IN A MOVIE WITH JENNIFER LOPEZ AND ANTONIO BANDERAS ABOUT THE MURDERS IN JUAREZ CITY, MEXICO
  • Date: 21st June 2005
  • Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (JUNE 20, 2005) (REUTERS) SINGER JUANES ARRIVING AT THE STUDIO (2 SHOTS) JUANES FANS JUANES SINGING "DAMELO" (GIVE IT TO ME) (6 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA2AX5DMVIULCSXYJRI5RM1MMBE
  • Story Text: Colombian crooner Juanes, one of the biggest stars
    in the Spanish speaking world, has announced that he will
    be taking part in a movie with Jennifer Lpez and Antonio
    Banderas about the murder of women in Mexicos Juarez City.

    "There is an invitation to do a movie now. Its about
    the slaughter of the women in Juarez City, which I thought
    was a really interesting subject. I dont know who the
    director is, but Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas are
    there in the movie. We are going to do it, I think, on
    Thursday or Friday in Albuquerque and my participation is
    basically as Juanes and Im singing at a party. I dont yet
    know the role exactly," the singer told journalists in
    Bogota Colombia, where he was opening the new headquarters
    of Radio Caracol.

    More than 340 women, most of them young women and
    girls, have been killed in Juarez City, which borders with
    the United States, in the last 12 years, in what Amnesty
    International considers one of the worst human rights
    problems in Mexico.

    "Its a very tragic, very difficult story that has been
    going on for a long time. And its mysterious. Every month
    without fail murdered, raped women appear in the desert,"
    said Juanes.

    The Mexican authorities have arrested and imprisoned a
    number of people in connection with the crimes, but the
    deaths continue and doubts remain that all those
    responsible have been brought to justice.

    The 32-year-old singer, whose hits include "A Dios le
    pido" (I Ask God), "La camisa negra" (The Black Shirt),
    "Volverte a Ver" (To See You Again), and "Nada valgo sin tu
    amor" (I Am Nothing Without Your Love), said he will be
    joining a campaign by the United Nations High Commissin
    for Refugees to help those displaced by Colombias internal
    conflict.

    Juanes said he would continue his tour until March
    2006, after which he planned a long rest before bringing
    out his next album, which he is already working on.
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