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2020 saw an increase in femicides; in the first seven months of 2020, reports suggested 2,000 femicides had occurred. Mexico is considered one of the countries with more femicides in Latin America and the world, among the most dangerous states is the State of Mexico, especially for one of its municipalities: Ecatepec, since in this state 84 murders were reported in the first months of the year.
The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead Monday, authorities said, just hours after the country elected its first female president in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates
In 2016, Mexico had a rate of 4.6 femicides per 100,000 women, and there were a total of 2,746 female deaths with the presumption of them being homicides. [50] In this same year, the top three states with the highest rates of female deaths with presumption of homicide were Colima (with 16.3 deaths per 100,000 women), Guerrero (13.1 per 100,000 ...
More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city’s famous ...
In 2018, a serial killer in Mexico City responsible for the deaths of at least 10 women was caught only when he was found pushing a dismembered body down the street in a baby carriage. He had ...
The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women and girls since 1993 in the northern Mexican region of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. As of February 2005, the number of murdered women in Ciudad Juarez since 1993 is ...
And while the murder rate has fallen in Mexico between 2019 and 2022, in absolute numbers the country is still reeling from historically high levels of homicides of around 30,000 people murdered ...