A homosexual couple from Texas was discovered tortured, shot and dismembered exterior a Mexican border metropolis that had already reported a spate of girls murdered within the younger new yr.
The our bodies of Julissa Ramírez and Nohemí Medina Martínez have been found Sunday in rubbish baggage on a freeway exterior Ciudad Juárez, simply over the border from the couple’s El Paso residence, based on El Diario, a Spanish-language newspaper.
The couple, who have been believed to be of their late 20s and bought married final summer time, had final been seen by household the day earlier than the grim discovery, the outlet reported.
Ramírez was residing in El Paso, simply north of the border, however Martínez nonetheless resided in Ciudad Juárez, their Fb profiles mentioned. The couple was initially from the state of Chihuahua and have been visiting family there, based on El Diario.
They reportedly left behind three youngsters — two women and a boy.
Authorities have been investigating the murders of 11 girls and greater than 50 males in Ciudad Juárez thus far this yr, El Diario mentioned.
On Monday, one other pair of girls have been discovered discarded in baggage in Ciudad Juárez, based on El Paso’s KVIA. One sufferer was useless when the invention was made, and the opposite was clinging to life however later died, the station reported, citing the Spanish newspaper.
The town is infamous for its drug violence, public killings and ugly murders of girls — labeled femicides by the federal government, based on the El Paso Instances. Practically 1,000 girls have been killed due to their gender final yr in Mexico, the federal government mentioned, based on the article.
Demonstrators carrying torches marched by means of downtown Juárez early Tuesday, demanding justice for ladies’s rights activist Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre, who was murdered in a central district two years in the past, the Texas paper mentioned. The unsolved case had emboldened the protesters to face as much as gender-based hate crimes, based on the outlet.
“La calle y la noche tambien son nuestras,” they reportedly chanted. “The road and the evening additionally belong to us.”
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