Uproar and Outrage in Mexico Over More Brutal ‘Feminicidios’

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In mid-February 2020, news of two new femicides shocked Mexicans, and especially Mexican women. The murder, skinning, and dismemberment of 25-year-old Íngrid Escamilla, and the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Fátima Cecilia Aldrighett, whose body was discovered in a plastic garbage bag in Mexico City’s Tlahuac neighborhood, convulsed the nation. Given that their killings are nothing out of the ordinary in Mexico, and indeed, seem to be just the most recent in a growing torrent of dead girls and women, a threshold seems to have been reached. Women poured into the streets in anger and protest. Their rage was heightened by the initially lukewarm response by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is known as AMLO. Calling this a systematic problem in Mexico, with the number of murdered women averaging ten a day, commentators largely condemned official reactions.

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