Pachuca Blood Mural

The Pachuca Blood mural at Lincoln Park really caught my attention because she represents a strong border woman who is a survivor of two worlds. The Pachuca is standing proud with two flags draped around her with one foot in Juarez and one foot in El Chuco. She is holding a heart with six daggers on her left hand piercing through the hearts of women along the border bleeding Pachuco Blood representing oppression, domestic violence, inequalities, rape, murder of her children, machismo, low wages etc. and through all the pain The Pachuca is a survivor she can take the stab wounds pierced through the heart. The Border is a place were evil and good competes it can give great opportunities or it can swallow you up with the strong current of the Rio Grande. Many families have tried crossing the border to provide a better life for their children and unfortunately some have died trying. It really breaks my heart when I hear and see the graphic pictures of the many lives that have been lost. It's also very frustrating to see how Juarez government does nothing to try to improve the lives of the people living there because of all the government corruption so unfortunately many more lives will be lost because families will continue trying to cross the border to provide a better life for their families. I relate to The Pachuca Blood mural because of my mother and father who went through very hard times to give us a better life and my mother for being a strong border women who never gave up even through all the pain and suffering she had to endure to give us a better life in El Chuco.