The Conversation

Fri May 29

Mexico's other epidemic: Murdered women

Written by Alejandra Marquez Guajardo, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Michigan State University

Women protest chronically high rates of femicide – the killing of women – in Mexico City in November 2019. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

Domestic violence has spiked in Mexico during its coronavirus-related lockdown. According to a national network of women’s shelters, calls for help were up 60% in April.

Even before the...

Mexico's other epidemic: Murdered women

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