Femicide

May 20th, 2009 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime
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Only a fool would assume women don’t play a role in the splintering tensions of Mexico’s cartel woes but this year’s proving to be a particularly nasty one for femicide in northern Mexico. They’ve been strangled, dissolved in acid, one was thrown in front of a train, others, like this unidentified woman, were shot in the head, their bodies laid out on the street. A message to somebody, no different than the fate of their male counterparts.

In Chihuahua, a state whose largest city, Juárez, has become almost synonymous with femicide, 31 women have been murdered this year; or about a woman a week. The dead include Tanya Lozoya, a 15-year-old from the U.S., killed at a party with two men, and Alicia Enriquez, a woman who was shot several times in the head. Last year, 89 women; the year prior, 25.

Intelligence reports that I’ve obtained over the past few months show that most of last year’s cases involved women accompanying their murdered husbands and boyfriends or were hunted down by rival cartels.

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The state attorney general’s office, under Patricia Gonzalez, has, somewhat, taken responsibility for a lack of investigation into the murdered women that have plagued Juárez since the early 1990s. Speaking before a commission in Chile that’s been investigating the 2001 murders of three women, Gonzalez said that “before I took office, there were omissions and irregularities, not only in these cases but in others, and they have been resolved, the victims’ mothers completely satisfied with the investigation.”

What she ommitted from the context of course, were the twelve new cases of women that have disappeared this year, a tally kept by the ngo, Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa. Typical, the missing don’t count; they’re not dead.dsc04095

In Sinaloa, 22 women have been murdered this year, reports El Debate, and citing statistics from the state domestic violence center, seven of those were reportedly murdered by spouses. One woman was thrown in front of a train. A second had her home broken into and was shot at close range.

Then there’s Tijuana. Last week, state police released information on three women who were found murdered, ages 17 to 22. Two were sisters, Nataly and Ivonne Medrano working at La Taberna strip club. They disappeared a year ago along with Laura Mejía, 22, a hairstylist. The three were murdered, their bodies dissolved in acid.

Two of El Ingenerio’s men were popped by the Mexican Army and fingered in those murders. A third remains at large.

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I wish I knew who this dead woman was. Judging from her clothing, she died the same day she posed for the shot above, a gunshot to the head and dumped in the street of some, so far nameless, city in Mexico.

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  1. drift May 20th, 2009 1:26 pm

    who is the guy it’s obvious she was probably with this guy the night it happened

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  2. RICO May 20th, 2009 2:22 pm

    drift has a point. did you noticed that the picture was laying next to her dead body on the street?? creepy!!!!!!!!!

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  3. Michel May 20th, 2009 2:25 pm

    Let’s work it, let’s find out who she was.

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    John Raymond Reply:
    August 28th, 2010 at 5:45 pm

    this is sick

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  4. ilegal May 20th, 2009 4:52 pm

    that’s a horrible way to make an statement.

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  5. Vinny Hanna May 20th, 2009 6:45 pm

    This is fooked up man, this case and the case in Tijuana. I thought this was supposed to be a gentleman’s business? In an odd way I used to kind of understand where the narco’s were coming from, and I know I’m not alone on that statement, but this is just a punk move.

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  6. PITUDO May 20th, 2009 6:52 pm

    THE DRUG BUISNESS WILL NEVER FALL ITS JUST GETTING CRAZIER

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  7. Tantos May 21st, 2009 12:09 am

    Right, just like Columbia in the 90′s? It will just have to hit bottom with the country on the brink of civil war. The Mexican cartels are primarily middlemen. The power will shift back again to the suppliers.

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  8. Mickey Martinez May 22nd, 2009 7:44 am

    Supposedly named Maribel Alfonso.

    Video of her dancing:

    http://theync.com/media.php?name=9856-sexy-female-dancing-with-the-devil

    More photos of her after death NSFW:

    http://theync.com/plugs.php?name=9867-above-dancing-female-s-murder-pictures

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  9. Mickey Martinez May 22nd, 2009 8:39 am

    She was Venezolana:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU8GA6CTulY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etruveo%2Ecom%2FMaribel%2DAlfonso%2Den%2Del%2Dbailoteo%2Fid%2F2231418718&feature=player_embedded

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  10. Michel May 22nd, 2009 9:28 am

    That’s a good bit of work, thanks for finding that.

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  11. Picony May 22nd, 2009 9:31 am

    TANTOS: You misspelled Colombia, and I strongly disagree with your statement. You could tell you haven’t done your research thoroughly. Then again, your entitled to your opinion, but you know what they say about Opinions!!!!!!

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  12. yo digo May 25th, 2009 12:12 pm

    which crew was she linked to, sinaloa or CAF…

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  13. Tantos May 27th, 2009 12:08 am

    Sorry for the misspelling, Picony, like it matters. Work on your own grammer before you correct me (“your” before “entitled” isn’t possessive, it should be you’re – as in “you are”). Please enlighten me as to YOUR opinions: Is Mexico now a top coca producing country? Is Mexico now a top poppy producing country? If not, then the Mexican cartels are still primarily middlemen for heroin and cocaine. Yes, they grow a lot of crappy weed and they do make a lot of meth from the precursor ingredients that come mostly from China. I still wouldn’t say that qualifies Mexico as primarily a supplier. And I don’t see how Mexico can keep sliding into further unending violence and chaos. But maybe you are more up to date than me. Digame que sabes.

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  14. smooth May 29th, 2009 1:57 pm

    Is that a bullet wound to her head?

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  15. cheryl February 5th, 2010 8:18 pm

    dont you think whoever took the picture…knew what would be done with it……

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  16. diosa March 13th, 2010 10:37 am

    shox..creepy

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  17. Me June 9th, 2010 5:19 pm

    Her pictures, both dead and alive are now floating around facebook. Someone has created a story about how she was the victim of having too much information on her Facebook page. Beautiful pictures, phone numbers and her address. It claims that a person who had that information went to her house and then they show the dead pictures of her as proof of what happens when you put too much info up on Facebook. I can appreciate the need to remind people that their Facebook account can attract the wrong people, but stealing photos of a very real crime and making it into a fake one is really sick.

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  18. Sid Van July 9th, 2010 4:57 pm

    Here is the facebook link.
    http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=103004909732147#!/video/video.php?v=103004909732147

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  19. Melissa So Cal July 14th, 2010 12:40 pm

    i just received this via face book. Weird how people turn stuff around to fit their own needs. i feel sorry for this girl and her family. The youtube video has been taken down. It must have been graphic. RIP young lady. Your life was too short.

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  20. courtney July 15th, 2010 1:26 am

    Mexico get it together they never bother to solve any crime that country is a mess and a scary nplace to be.

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  21. average cookie July 15th, 2010 9:34 am

    Since when does wearing the same clothes prove it’s on the same day? Most girls wear their favorite outfits more than once. Maybe she wore that outfit all the time. The two pictures could have been taken a year apart for all we know.
    I was just subjected to the phony facebook video and in researching it, I found this article. Some people’s ignorance is maddening to me.

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  22. wackyvonzkie July 15th, 2010 11:46 pm

    so its not because of the information she showed on facebook..tsk!

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  23. harry August 5th, 2010 5:36 pm

    I would guess she has been slain by the man in the photographs enemies. Thats why it has been placed next to her body, to show she affiliated with him. Thats just my guess though.

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  24. Rod P. August 6th, 2010 12:56 pm

    Mr. Michel Marizco,

    Please do me a favor and explain to me why you consider yourself an actual reporter? Do you not check your facts at all. Do you know that you are using information posted all over the web for various reasons(ie., meeting people on facebook, hooking on the internet, posing for photos, and your story drug cartels), to forward their own agendas. If you had checked your facts, or was it your intention not too? Perhaps you believe all hispanic women look the same racism works as fact checking these days. If you would have done a little more research for the full picture of the woman with the headwound maybe you would have found she was wearing totally a different outfit. Did you crop the photo because even you did not believe the tree hugging bleeding heart sheeple who read your rag would see through the hooka haze and say whoa the coroner changed her swimsuit.

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  25. kl August 7th, 2010 11:36 am

    If you look close it is possible for the swim suite to be the same its blood stained.the one in the above picture looks like it may have the same pattern and sheen to it as the one in the last shot of the video.

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  27. bluescorer November 28th, 2010 2:34 pm

    O. J. will get them.

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