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Sexual harassment in Mexico drives women to look for rides with other women

Women in Mexico face daily fears of harassment and violence, especially when using public transportation and rideshare apps

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Why the arrest of cartel kingpins like Ovidio Guzman fuels drug violence in Mexico

Celebrated as major setback for Sinaloa Cartel, detention of Ovidio ‘El Raton’ Guzman Thursday has already led to revenge attacks in city of Culiacan

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After Shanquella Robinson’s ‘femicide’, experts say US must do more to recognise violence against women

The US is obscuring an epidemic of violence against women by failing to classify gender-based killings, experts say

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Mexican girl at center of outcry over violence was sexually assaulted, murdered: autopsy

Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed on Friday to deliver justice for the killing of a Mexican teenage girl after an autopsy was published showing she had been violently sexually assaulted and murdered.

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Debanhi Escobar’s father on his fight to find the killer who dumped her body in a Mexico motel cistern

EXCLUSIVE: Authorities believe Debanhi Escobar ended up dead in a water tank by accident. In an interview with Independent en Español, her father, Mario Escobar, tells José Luis Montenegro why he’s convinced that’s a lie

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Mexico fires 2 officials in probe of young woman's death

Mexican authorities say two prosecution officials have been fired over “omissions and errors” in the search for a missing woman found dead last week in northern Mexico

The Independent UK

Debanhi Escobar: Taxi driver who took haunting final photo of slain Mexico teen ‘tried to grope her chest’

Images purportedly show the driver reaching for Escobar after she got into the back seat of his car

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‘Femicide nation’: murder of young woman casts spotlight on Mexico’s gender violence crisis

Discovery of teen’s body has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests, following the murders of 1,000 women last year

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Murdered Mexico teen Debanhi Escobar was seen entering motel where her body was found alone

Investigators said teen walked into roadside inn by herself and spent few minutes on property

The Independent UK

Mexican women protest following murder of woman found dead in cistern after haunting last photo went viral

Officials found Debanhi Escobar’s body in unrecognisable condition in cistern at motel in Monterrey

The Independent UK

Hundreds of women protest in Mexico City over murder of 18-year-old dumped on side of road by taxi driver

Officials found Debanhi Escobar’s body in unrecognisable condition in cistern at motel in Monterrey

The Independent UK

Women protest in Mexico City over killings, disappearances

Hundreds of women are protesting in Mexico City following the horrifying death of an 18-year-old in the northern city of Monterrey

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Family buries Mexican teenager who has reignited anger over gender violence

Standing atop a windswept hill in northern Mexico, surrounded by dozens of fellow mourners, Mario Escobar prepared to bury his teenage daughter, Debanhi, one of the latest victims of the country's crisis of violence against women.

Reuters

Missing Mexican teenager found dead, fuelling outrage over gender violence in state where 26 women have disappeared this year

The body of Debanhi Escobar, 18, is found submerged in a cistern on the grounds of a Mexican motel near where she was last seen alive on April 9, sparking protests that blocked a major highway.

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Mexican police find body of missing young woman in cistern

The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico has ended in sorrow, with her decomposing body found in a subterranean water tank at a motel

Reuters

Missing girl found dead, fueling outrage over gender violence in Mexico

The body of a Mexican teenager who went missing this month in the northern state of Nuevo Leon has been found submerged in a cistern inside the grounds of a motel near where she was last seen alive, according to her father.

Reuters

In northern Mexico, authorities search for missing women amid spate of disappearances

More than two dozen women and girls have disappeared so far this year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, sparking frantic searches among residents who hope their loved ones have not become the latest victims of endemic gender violence.

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Haunting final photo of missing Mexican woman draws attention to countrywide scandal

A cab driver had allegedly left her in the middle of the road following an argument

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