Violence Against Women Is at the Center of Mexico’s Security Crisis
A recent mob attack underscores the need to recognize the gendered dimensions of violence in a critical election year.
In late March, an 8-year-old girl went missing in the city of Taxco in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Camila Gómez Ortega had left her home to play at a neighbor’s house but never came back. When her mother reported Camila missing, she encountered, as many family members of the disappeared do in Mexico, indifference and even contempt. When she received messages asking for a ransom, Camila’s mother knew her daughter was in danger. The day after, March 28, authorities found Camila’s lifeless body on the side of a road. Camila’s murder, which is now being investigated...
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