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This essay explores the use of euphemistic language to justify violence against marginalized groups and those who are critical of hegemonic institutions along the US-Mexico borderlands. In particular, it analyzes these justifications and "euphemisms of violence" against the mujeres obreras (working women) and Indigenous persons in the literary works Th e Mummified Deer (2000) by Luis Valdez and The Women of Juarez (2005) by Rubén Amavizca Murúa. These theatrical plays represent not only the violence against these groups but also the impunity the perpetrators enjoy through a discourse of "Otherizing" women and Indigenous peoples. This discourse thus allows justification of violence, and the language of justification is euphemistic. This paper discusses how this euphemistic language is a linguistic tool for perpetuating a social order that is demanded by hegemonic institutions and neoliberal practices on both sides of the US-Mexico border. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poem "Tortillas Remezclas" by Christen Sperry García is presented. First Line: tortillas remezclas///entre///rio grande; Last Line: tortillas nepantlas.