After holding a public hearing in March of this year, the international court of the Organization of American States (OAS) notified the sentence this Friday, from its headquarters in Costa Rica.
“The State failed to comply with the duty of due diligence that arises in the face of the disappearance of women and, therefore, was responsible for the violation of the rights to life, personal integrity and personal freedom of Lilia Alejandra García Andrade,” he said.
This is the second sentence that the Inter-American Court issues against Mexico so far this month. On December 15, it was resolved that it also bears responsibility for the sexual rape, torture and death in 2007 of the indigenous Nahuatl woman Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, 73 years old.
The femicides of Juárez
With today’s notification, Mexico is condemned for the second time for the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, where, the Court notes, “there was a context of gender violence and generalized impunity.”
The court first heard the Campo Algodonero case, which concluded in 2009 with an emblematic sentence for the disappearance and femicide in 2001 of three women from Ciudad Juárez: Claudia Ivette González, Esmeralda Herrera Monreal and Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez.
That same year, on February 14, Lilia Alejandra García was disappeared after leaving her job in a maquila. His body was found a week later. He was 17 years old and had two children.
Her murder was linked to the femicides of four other girls from the same city, but which occurred between 1995 and 2005. In 2010, the State Attorney General’s Office found a match between the genetic profile of the semen of Lilia’s attacker and that of the attacker of the other four women.
All cases remain unpunished. There is one person detained, but the defense considers that there is no certainty, proof or evidence that links him to the femicide. Their hypothesis is that the same group of men kidnapped, tortured and murdered girls in Ciudad Juárez for a decade and that they remain unpunished.
