Journalist: Women's Killings Kept Quiet While Pena Nieto Was Mexican Governor Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original May 20, 2014

Journalist Humberto Padgett said in an interview with Efe that 1,997 women were murdered during Enrique Peña Nieto’s 2005-2011 term as governor of Mexico state, a figure that officials have tried to gloss over by promoting an image of a president who is adored by women.

Padgett contends in his new book, titled “Las muertas del estado. Feminicidios durante la administracion mexiquense de Enrique Peña Nieto,” that Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, is the region experiencing the highest level of violence against women and registering the fewest reported cases.

Peña Nieto “acknowledged that he won the governorship of Mexico state in 2005 thanks to the women” and said the same thing after winning the presidency in 2012, Padgett told Efe.

“What we found at various times is the obstinate concealment of the figures on the real state of their safety during his administration,” the author said.

Many non-governmental organizations warned the man who is now Mexico’s president about the situation, the number of victims and the brutality of the slayings, Padgett said.

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A growing number of women are victims of drug-related violence in Mexico. Sexual and gender-based violence against women in the country has a long history marked by lack legal intervention, and more recently, fueled by drug cartels and organized crime.



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