Justice Is Scarce for Female Murder Victims in the State of Mexico Andalucía Knoll - VICE News
go to original May 1, 2014

In 2004, 24-year-old Nadia Alejandra Muciño was found dead in her home with a rope and an electrical cord tied around her throat.

Even though all signs pointed to murder via strangulation, and there had been a documented record of incidents of domestic violence, authorities declared Mucino's death a suicide.

Muciño wasn’t assassinated in Ciudad Juárez — the Mexican border metropolis in the Northern state of Chihuahua — which has become internationally known for these kinds of gruesome murders that largely target young women.

No, Muciño was murdered in the state of Mexico — on the outskirts of the capital city, where femicides or the killing of women, topped the nation’s murder statistics.

Between 2005 and 2011, during President Peña Nieto’s term as governor of the state of Mexico, 1,997 women were murdered in his state, according to official government statistics.

A report issued by the Initiative of Female Nobel Peace Prize winners in 2013 found that 6.4 women were murdered every day in Mexico and that femicides increased 40 percent between 2006-2012 during Felipe Calderon’s failed ”war on drugs.”

In the book, The Assassinated Women of the State: Femicide During Enrique Peña Nieto’s Administration, author Humberto Padgett attempted to find out why one Mexican state that makes up only 13.5 percent of the national population accounts for 25 percent of the femicides.

Padgett spoke with victims' family members to shed light on the numerous ways they have been denied justice.

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