'Femicide nation': murder of young woman casts spotlight on Mexico's gender violence crisis
Tom Phillips and Lillian Perlmutter in Mexico City
Tue 26 Apr 2022 12.00 EDT
Last modified on Tue 26 Apr 2022 17.11 EDT
Discovery of teen’s body has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests, following the murders of 1,000 women last year
“Don’t take risks – stay with us,” says one of the slogans at the Nueva Castilla motel, a $37.85 (£30) per night roadside inn in the Mexican city of Monterrey.
But the horrifying discovery of a dead teenager in the lodge’s water tank has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests in a country facing a spiraling femicide crisis that saw 1,000 women murdered last year because of their gender.
Demonstrators gathered outside the motel on Monday night for the latest in a series of rallies demanding justice for Debanhi Susana Escobar Bazaldúa, whose disappearance and apparent murder have rekindled devastating memories of a wave of killings in the border city of Ciudad Juárez two decades ago.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/26/murder-young-woman-mexico-femicide
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