Oaxaca leads the state with the most femicides in the first month of 2023

Just start the year Oaxaca is positioned as the entity with the most cases of femicides in the country. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, the southern state has registered a dozen investigation files for this crime, as well as a dozen female victims.

Although the agency reports femicides according to the number of files initiated in the various public prosecutor’s offices, the number of victims is generally higher (example with Oaxaca). Thus, during the month of January 2023, the authorities recorded 68 gender crimes with 72 women injured.

The Oaxaca entity was followed by the State of Mexico there Veracruz with seven cases each; Mexico City and Jalisco with five cases (in Jalisco six victims); Nuevo León with four; Chihuahua, Hidalgo and Sonora with three (in Chihuahua four victims); Baja California, Colima, Morelos, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Tabasco and Tamaulipas with two.

While in Chiapas, Durango, Michoacán, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Yucatán and Zacatecas, one case has been recorded in each. It appears that during the first month in Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Tlaxcala -nine states- no crimes or victims of femicide have been reported.

Although the Executive Secretariat indicates that 72 women were victims of feminicide last January, the number of victims increases exponentially if all the women who were intentionally murdered. That is to say, they died by the intention of their author.

Thus, during the first month of the current year, a total of 302 women were intentionally deprived of their lives in the country, 23.84% of them for gender reasons (72 victims of femicide). This is a rough estimate that out of ten murdered women (9.7), only in two cases authorities decided to investigate a suspected femicide.

Thus, removing from the equation the cases in which femicide is prosecuted as a crime, in Mexico it was reported 230 intentional homicides to the detriment of women. In this context, the The State of Mexico was the entity with the highest incidence reporting 34 cases. Then there are Guanajuato with 32, Baja California with 22, Zacatecas with 20, Chihuahua with 16, and Jalisco and Michoacán with 12 each.

(EFE) Mothers of missing women and members of different feminist groups went to the “Memorial del Campo Algodonero”, in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, where they painted pink crosses with the legend “Not one more”. and posted inquiries about their daughters, ahead of the wave of femicide plaguing the city.

The participants, who wore purple, black and pink outfits, had the same slogan on their clothes. In addition, they carried a cardboard with the message “We demand the appointment of the Heads of State of the FEM Zona Norte and the Research Commission”.

“Not one more, not one more, not one more murdered.” “Sir, madam, do not be indifferent, women are killing themselves in front of the people,” intoned the demonstrators. At this point in 2001, the bodies of several women were found. From this international news, the city is remembered for the homicides committed against women.

Due to the fact that acts of violence continued to occur, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) suggested to the government of the state of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, the creation of a memorial to the memory of women victims of violence found there.

In addition to the creation of a specialized prosecutor’s office for women to deal with acts of violence committed against them, measures have been taken.