The number of women murdered in Mexico is up by more than 9 per cent this year
In this June 7, 2020 file photo, a demonstrator sticks a flyer of a women who was a victim of violence on the riot shield of police officer outside Mexico City's security headquarters during a protest amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City. MEXICO CITY -- The number of homicides in Mexico has grown during the new coronavirus pandemic, including a 9.2% spike in killings of women, according to government figures released Monday.
Activists have long worried that the increased confinement of families to their homes would increase killings of women, and they indeed grew from 448 in the first half of 2019 to 489 in the same period of 2020. The department said the video showed a column of about 75 Jalisco cartel gunmen dressed in military-style fatigues with a dozen homemade armoured pickup trucks, an anti-aircraft gun, nine belt-fed machine-guns, ten .50-calibre sniper rifles, six grenade launchers and 54 assault rifles.
The department said the video was apparently filmed near the border of Jalisco and Guanajuato states and shows an "elite group" of cartel gunmen formed in 2019 who have been linked to an attack on police, but who have apparently not used the armoured vehicles in combat or directly attacked federal forces.The army said "the armament, the equipment and the vehicles used show an unlimited use of money earned from illegal activities.
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