Discovery of teen’s body has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests, following the murders of 1,000 women last year
Public anger has been compounded by the fact that it took nearly a fortnight for Escobar’s body to be found, despite police searching the motel on at least four occasions in an operation that included sniffer dogs and drones.
“Eleven women are killed in this country every day. We have at least 20,000 women who are missing in Mexico. And the state’s failures in searching for these women and investigating what has happened to them have remained unchanged for almost 30 years now,” she added.Photograph: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/eyepix/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock, denounced what she described as a never-ending nightmare: “It is every single day.
Dolores Bazaldúa, mother of Debanhi Escobar, handed out posters with her daughter’s image during the 13-day search.Many women’s rights advocates hoped for progress after the supposedly progressive Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president in 2018.Yet López Obrador, a 68-year-old nationalist known as Amlo, has repeatedly clashed with the feminist movement, at times suggesting such campaigners were the tools of his conservative political rivals.