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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]
Maquiladora women workers are not the only ones affected by the violence. The majority of those murdered and who disappeared are women and girls who work at local retail, students, teachers, and sex workers. [2] Many people began calling this situation a feminicide because of the degree of violence and high numbers of dead women in Juarez ...
Violence surges in the Mexican border city of Juárez amid a war between La Linea and La Empresa crime organizations.
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.
In 2016, the government of Mexico City started offering free rape whistles to women at public transportation hubs. They also provided women-only subway cars and pink buses to help protect women. [1] On February 26, 2020, twenty professors were fired from the four colleges of the Autonomous University of Mexico State for sexual harassment. [90]
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Fans of Juan Gabriel congregate outside the Mexican superstar's house in Ciudad Juárez on Aug. 23. 2024. The mansion is now called the Juan Gabriel Museum.
The House of Death refers to a serial killing site in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where executions were committed by members of the Juárez Cartel, some allegedly with the knowledge and participation of a United States undercover informant known by the pseudonym "Lalo", who had infiltrated the cartel.