Mexico's Femicides Double in Four Years

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Milenio

From 2015 until the cut of November 30, 2019, femicides in the country and in the State of Mexico doubled. In addition, this will be the year with the highest number of women murdered in both cases, both for gender reasons and for malicious homicides, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System. 

NGOs At the national level, for example, of 411 femicides reported in 2015, 890 crimes have already been registered within a month of the end of 2019, that is, more than double. That amount also exceeds 56 the figure reached throughout 2018, which was 834. 

In the January-November 2018 period, 760 femicides were registered in the country, which means that 130 more women were victimized in the same period of this year, with an increase of almost 17.5 percent. Regarding the malicious homicides and also at the national level, in 2015 735 women were murdered, while until November 2019 2, 564 homicides were registered; The increase is approximately 48 percent. 

In 2018, in the January-November period, 2,466 files were reported for that crime, while in the same period of 2019 there were 2,564; This is 98 more murdered women, which translates into a 4 percent increase. In the sum of murders for both types of crimes in the country, in 2015 3, 256 were registered; until November of this year they had 3, 454, an increase of about 6 percent. 

Regarding the situation of extreme violence against women in the State of Mexico, the most populous entity in the country with more than 17 million inhabitants, the number of femicides also doubled, because while in 2015 there were 57 cases, with a cut to Last November 30 they added 108. That amount translates into an increase of 15 percent compared to those reported in the January-November 2018 period, which had 94 records. 

The Mexican entity is in second place in the incidence of the phenomenon, surpassed only by Veracruz, which has 152, a state that does not register malicious homicides against women, according to the court of November 30. In relation to that crime and until November of this year, the State of Mexico is at the forefront with 294 malicious murders. 

That figure already exceeds the total of 2018 reports by four. There are also 26 women more victims compared to the January-November period last year, when 268 were killed, that is, the variation of a period is 10 percent more.

However, from 2015, the year in which Gender Alert was declared in 11 municipalities of the State of Mexico, as of November 2019, it went from 358 women murdered both for femicide and for malicious homicide, to 402 investigation folders, which represents an increase of 12.5 percent. 

Among the municipalities that appear in the list of the 100 with the highest incidence of femicides are Monterrey (17), Culiacán (14) and the mayor of Iztapalapa (13), are those who lead it, but in the Mexican entity are also Toluca (8) , Chimalhuacán (7), Ixtapaluca (7), Ecatepec (6), Naucalpan (5), Nezahualcóyotl (5), Almoloya de Juárez, (4), Tlalnepantla (4), Tultitlán (4) and Valle de Chalco (4) .