“The message is of impunity. Since nothing happens if you take a woman’s life, the message is ‘keep doing it’. It does not matter that there are witnesses, that it is in a park, in a restaurant with a firearm, it does not matter that they are being burned alive. The authority does not want to recognize the problem of violence against women,” says Ivonne Olvera, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
In this administration there are 10,067 intentional homicides and 3,444 femicides, and although it is not possible to make a comparison of violence against women with respect to past six-year terms, because this crime was typified in the 32 entities as of 2020, the numbers warn that There is an increase in violence year after year.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took over the country with 69 femicides and 218 intentional homicides. Last June, these crimes were located in 87 and 281 events, which represents an increase of 26% in deaths by gender and 28% in intentional murders.
However, the “other data” from the federal government reports a decrease when comparing the events of June this year with August 2021, when the month with the most femicides in the country is recorded.
“In the case of femicide, it fell 20%, also compared to our historical maximum of 2021. We continue to work preventively and also on the sanctions of femicides. It must be remembered that this crime is fully criminalized in the 32 states as of 2020, before there was no criminalization of this crime, that is why it is very difficult to make comparisons with previous years, but from the time it begins to be criminalized there was an increase and it has come down,” said the Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez on July 20 when presenting the report.
