Breaking the Silence

This article analyzes the strange eco-cosmopolitan detective attributes of Ivon, protagonist in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s 2005 novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders. Through this willful, queer, and feminist mestiza character, who continually trespasses transgresses cultural borders, Alba challenges standards crime fiction numerous ways, as argued paper. Moreover, she also manages to expose transnational dimension exploitation, mistreatment, even murder women Ciudad Juárez. Simultaneously, Ivon’s eco-cosmopolitanism acknowledges how expendability thinking free trade that partly sanctions women, results environmental degradation of, flow toxins pollution border. Ultimately, strange, investigative traits, serve tools break silence start confronting feminicides well socio-environmental exploitation US-Mexico border region, fostering a positive change.