Death of an activist: unsolved murder exposes fraught outlook in Mexico via RebekahFWard
MEXICO CITY - Human rights activists in Mexico had already suffered a bad year by the time 58-year-old Cristina Vazquez was murdered in her apartment in an affluent Mexico City neighborhood at the end of June.
Over two months later, no suspects have been arrested. Vazquez’s murder adds to the heavy toll on Mexico’s record under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December pledging to contain mounting lawlessness. Police found Vazquez’s body at her apartment in the city’s western neighborhood of Condesa on July 1, when neighbors reported a foul smell. Days earlier, passers-by had alerted police to screams in the vicinity.
No suspect has been named over the killing and nobody has been charged so far. Local police did not respond to repeated requests by Reuters for comment on the case. According to the OHCHR, 14 rights activists were killed in 2018. Tallies vary, and Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission categorized Vazquez as the seventh such victim in 2019 after registering six last year.Rural rights advocates are often among those most exposed if they clash with economic interests competing for land or natural resources, experts say.
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