The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico has ended in tragedy, after her decomposing body was found in a subterranean water tank at a motel.
The image seemed to speak of the tremendous vulnerability, and the self-assuredness — or desperation — of the young woman.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday the case “has caused, logically, a lot of worry, a lot of concern” among Mexicans. The president pledged to help prosecutors find the culprit, but in fact the killings of women have increased in recent years, rising from 977 cases in 2020 to 1,015 in 2021. And those were just the cases classified as “feminicides,” a legal term used in Mexico in cases where women are killed because of their gender. Killings of women overall are much higher.
Angelica Orozco, who leads the relatives’ group United Forces for Our Disappeared in Nuevo Leon state, said the problem is not only that authorities are slow to investigate and do it badly, but that they also tend to blame the victims.
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