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From today's the Los Angeles Times -

Latin American audiences are glued to episodes of a TV show about abuses no longer endured.

It's the hit Latin American TV series "Mujeres Asesinas" (Women Assassins), a high-gloss revenge fantasy about the fury of women scorned that has become a major TV hit and a minor pop-culture phenomenon in certain Spanish-speaking parts of this hemisphere.

Loosely adapted from real-life crime stories, "Mujeres Asesinas" follows a fairly simple formula. In Mexico, viewers saw two episodes each week in which women are grievously wronged, usually by a man (father, husband, lover, "john"). Most of the female characters formerly were mild-mannered, long-suffering types. But they are transformed by the abuses they endure into hellions with telltale nicknames such as Patricia "Avenger," Martha "Suffocator" and Margarita "Poisonous."

Each of the segments builds to a gruesome climax, in which the crime is reenacted. Every episode also concludes with a moral coda stating what just deserts were reaped by their homicidal protagonists.

Predictably, "Mujeres Asesinas" has stirred talk in the Latin American media about whether it might incite women to commit more acts of revenge-fueled violence. What do you think? Let us know. Should men be afraid?

"We are a little macho in the Latin American world. And this is what is shown in all the chapters," - not the only place in the world!

Male and female fans of "Mujeres Asesinas" from as far away as China and Croatia are busily posting admiring comments about the series, along with their own personal tales of woe, on the show's official Facebook page. "A wounded woman would be capable of everything," one female fan wrote. "I believe that we are all disposed to fight." - Read "Beauty Bites Beast" and find out just how and why we should all know how to fight back (email us at pfield@5050Leadership.org with your credit card information and we'll send a copy right out to you - $20 plus $3.95 s+h

"In the end, violence within families or sexual abuse could be in all the world," said Leo Marker, the Mexican series' press director. "It's on all sides, not only in Latin America."