escape her attacker. Later Diaz gets shot and killed in a drive-by shooting. Eva changes her mind and does not want to testify any more for fear of revenge, and tries to flee to the U.S., together with others in the trunk of a car. She gets caught and is sent back. Adrian convinces her to testify after all. For political reasons the Chicago Sentinel refuses to publish Adrian's story. Adrian quits and becomes the editor for El Sol de Juárez. Cast Jennifer Lopez as Lauren Adrian: reporter for the Chicago Sentinel, and daughter of Mexican immigrants. Antonio Banderas as Alfonso Diaz: founder of newspaper El Sol. Maya Zapata as Eva Jimenez: factory worker and rape survivor. Sônia Braga as Teresa Casillas: founder of an organization trying to help the women in Juárez. Teresa Ruiz as Cecila Rojas: a young factory worker. Juan Diego Botto as Marco Antonio Salamanca: son of the extremely rich Salamanca family, owner of one of the maquiladora. Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez as Lourdes Jimenez: Eva's concerned mother. Rene Rivera as Aris Rodriguez: rapist. Irineo Alvarez as Domingo Esparza: bus driver and rapist. Martin Sheen as George Morgan: Lauren's boss. Randall Batinkoff as Frank Kozerski: Lauren's co-worker and friend. Kate del Castillo as Elena Diaz. Juanes as himself Production Background The motion picture is based on a series of unsolved murders in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a large Mexican border city across the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) from El Paso, Texas. When Gregory Nava first heard about the murders in Ciudad Juárez he wanted to do something. He said that his vision became to tell the stories through "an exciting thriller-drama". Gregory Nava approached Jennifer Lopez to do the film in 1998 and she was receptive. Lopez said, "Since first hearing of these atrocities in 1998, when Gregory Nava came to me with this project, I desperately wanted to tell this story. I began working to ensure we made this film in order to bring the attention of the world to [the] tragedy and to pressure the Mexican government to bring to justice those responsible for these horrible crimes." Director Gregory Nava and executive producer Barbara Martinez-Jitner believed that the film would bring strong reactions. Gregory Nava has said the production received threats against himself and the cast. Also, there was stolen equipment and intimidation of film crew members when they filmed in Mexico. According to