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Mexico’s Epidemic Of Missing And Murdered Women

Mexico’s Epidemic Of Missing And Murdered Women
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Members of a group of at least 40 Central American women travelling in caravan across Mexico in search of missing migrant relatives stand on the outskirts of the Zapopan Church in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico, on November 26, 2014. The Caravan of Central American Mothers 2014 will travel to a score of communities in Mexico in search of their beloved ones. AFP PHOTO/Hector Guerrero (Photo credit should read HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of a group of at least 40 Central American women travelling in caravan across Mexico in search of missing migrant relatives stand on the outskirts of the Zapopan Church in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico, on November 26, 2014. The Caravan of Central American Mothers 2014 will travel to a score of communities in Mexico in search of their beloved ones. AFP PHOTO/Hector Guerrero (Photo credit should read HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images)
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The woman’s body appeared in the middle of March.

She had been left next to a sewage canal in Mexicali, a Mexican city that borders the dry and dusty Imperial Valley in California. There was a bag over her head, her hands and feet tied with duct tape. She was the eighth woman to have been killed in the city since the beginning of 2015 – as of June, 12 have been murdered. Still more have vanished without a trace.

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