It happened in Mexico
CNN – Valeria Marquez went to her Tiktok followers in a broadcast live from her beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico, when someone arrived at her door to deliver a small order.
“It’s a little pig!” Exclaimed the 23 -year -old beauty influencer as he returned to his viewers and unwrapped the puffy animal, smiling as he shot his long blond hair over his shoulder.
Moments later, he was dead, lying in his chair, with blood accumulated in the secretary in front of him, while the broadcast live. The right ended only when someone else took the mobile phone, momentarily showing his face to viewers.
According to the Attorney General of the State of Jalisco, Marquez was shot dead by a man who introduced himself into his salon, in a case being investigated as a suspected femicide – the murder of a woman or girl for gender reasons.
Marquez’s death – a public figure with more than 100,000 Instagram followers – has caused a shock in a country that has long been debate with high levels of homicide and violence against women.
A few days earlier, another woman – a mayor candidate in the state of Veracruz – was also killed in a live shot, along with three other people.
Although not all homicides involving women are femicides, many are. In 2020, a quarter of women’s murders in Mexico were investigated as feminicides, with cases reported in each of the 32 states of Mexico, according to Amnesty International.
Last year, 847 cases of femicide were registered across the country – and 162 in the first three months of this year, according to data from the Mexican government.
Mexico’s response to homicides in general is very disabled, according to human rights defense groups, which say very few investigations lead to court actions.
“In 2022, about 4,000 women were killed in Mexico, which equals 12% of all this year’s homicides,” Juanita Goebertus, director of Human Rights Watch to the Americas, told CNN. “And the case rate that leads to a verdict is about 67%.”
The main challenge, Goebertus added, is to increase the authorities’ ability to investigate and protect witnesses and victims.
CNN contacted the Attorney General’s office for more information.
Ivonne Valdés, Verónica Calderon and Angelica Franganillo Diaz from CNN collaborated in this report.
