Femicide has been an issue in Mexican life for decades that, instead of going down, tends to grow. The lack of consistent public policies at all levels of government, as well as the still deficient administration of justice, are burdens that seem to give oxygen to the proliferation of cases.
Today EL UNIVERSAL shows the most brutal face of this type of murder, that of the mutilation of bodies, a practice that has become more frequent; Only in Mexico City and in the State of Mexico there are 44 cases in the last decade, and in the last five years the number of discoveries in vacant lots has increased.
Various reports have agreed that brutality has been a feature that characterizes femicides. While much of the male homicides are committed with firearms, sharp objects are used against women three times more than in the murders of men. A study carried out 12 years ago, in 2009, by UN-Women, Inmujeres and the Chamber of Deputies, found since then that in femicides “the use of more cruel means” such as hanging, strangulation or drowning was more frequent; furthermore, “the proportion in which women are poisoned or burned with various substances or with fire, triples that of men.”
Today these practices are still present, although some authorities do not have a record of the cases of mutilated women. In the State of Mexico, for example, there is no public and official information on femicides that included mutilation or skinning of the body; however, at least 30 public cases were found in a hemerographic review. In the country’s capital, the authority counts 14 cases in a decade.
According to experts, the violence that was unleashed as part of the fight against drug trafficking has “normalized” the cruelty of homicides, specifically reflected in the ruthless aggression against bodies, particularly in femicides.
On the national scene, there are no signs that this situation of aggressions and femicides will diminish or disappear in the short and medium terms. There is a lack of training for justice with a gender perspective, decisive actions from those who lead the different governments and dialogue with feminist groups, among many other actions, while the snowball of deaths of women and cruel murders is on the rise.
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