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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.
In 2012, Mexico was ranked as the 16th country with the highest rates of femicides. [49] Moreover, between 2011 and 2016, there were an average of 7.6 female homicides per day. [50] 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]
Femicides in many Latin American nations have been linked to organized crime, drug trafficking, cartel wars, and conflicts between criminal organizations and the state. [10] [34] In 2020, the National Map of Femicides in Mexico reported that up to 63% of femicides recorded in March and April were linked to organized crime in some capacity. [10]
That's less than in the United States, where about 20 to 25 percent of the people who are murdered in a given year are women". [ 8 ] Statistical evaluation of data from 1990 to 2012 conducted by researchers Pedro Albuquerque and Prasad Vemala shows that femicide rates in Juárez are in most years like rates in Chihuahua City and Ensenada and ...
Mexico still has a famously intense “machismo,” or male chauvinism, culture, expressed in its most extreme form in a high rate of femicides, but also daily in hundreds of more subtle ways.
MEXICO CITY — The corpses of three people, dismembered and burned, were found in bags in Abasolo, in the state of Guanajuato, on Sept. 2. Three days later, a trans woman was murdered in the same ...
Feminist groups march to protest the murder of Ariadna Lopez, in Mexico City, on Nov. 7. Prosecutors said Sunday an autopsy on Lopez who was found dead in the neighboring state of Morelos, showed ...
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