Activist who coined the phrase "Not One More Death" killed in Mexico

Activist who coined the phrase "Not One More Death" killed in Mexico

2011-01-13 10:53:05 GMT+7 (ICT)

JUAREZ (BNO NEWS) - A Mexican female activist who protested against feminicide has been killed in the border city of Juarez, local media reported on Wednesday.

The strangled body of 36-year-old Susana Chávez was found on January 6 with her left hand cut off and a black plastic bag over her head. The body was not identified until Tuesday.

In a TV interview, Chihuahua state Attorney General Carlos Manuel Salas said the murder was not related to Chávez's activism and emphasized that it was a case of "social decay."

"We have statements from her mother, (that she) was drinking, went to a bar after hours, found three boys, went with them to have fun, went with them to the house of one of them, and unfortunately these people were drinking, were drugged and then, after hanging out, decided to kill her," the prosecutor said in the interview,

Chávez was a prominent activist and poet who coined the phrase "Not One More Death" to protest against the ongoing killings of women in Juarez since the 1990s.

In December, another prominent female activist was murdered in the city of Chihuahua. Marisela Escobedo Ortiz was killed by a gunman after he shot her in the head while she protested outside the governor's office. Escobedo had been looking for justice after the murder of her daughter in 2008.

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