Mexico saw more than 1,000 femicides last year -- second only to Brazil in Latin America. Officials have recognized the femicide rate and violence against women as problematic for decades, yet little progress is evident in national data.
A friend of Monica Citlalli Diaz carries her photo on the sidelines of her funeral at a cemetery in Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Nov. 11, 2022. On a November afternoon, Monica Citlalli Diaz left home in a sprawling suburb of Mexico's capital and headed to the school where she'd been teaching English for years. It seemed an ordinary day, but on this one, she never arrived at work.
The country saw more than 1,000 femicides last year -- second only to Brazil in Latin America. On average, 10 women or girls are killed daily nationwide. Officials have recognized the femicide rate and violence against women as problematic for decades, yet little progress is evident in national data.
Some states have tried to address the problem by creating prosecutor's offices for gender crimes. The federal government has declared more than two dozen gender violence alerts since 2015. The alerts obligate local, state and federal authorities to take coordinated emergency action and to address biases in access to justice.
Still, last year there were more than double the number of femicides nationally than in 2015, according to federal data. Some of that increase could be attributed to better record-keeping -- not all Mexican states had codified femicide as a crime until 2017 -- but the death toll has risen yearly. This year, Diaz met Jesus Alexis Alvarez Ortiz, an athletic 27-year-old who worked at a hotel. He was possessive, Olvera said, and she saw changes in her sister. She lost weight, stayed out late. Still, she never missed work.
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