Women are being murdered in Mexico at an alarming rate, but the nation's president has downplayed a surge in calls to emergency hotlines, declaring most of them are false.
Since stay-at-home measures were ordered March 23 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, there has been an increase in homicides where women are the victims, according to government data released last week. April was the deadliest month in the last five years with a record 267 murders of women.
López Obrador's explanation for the calls has been disputed by a leading advocate for women. "It's not that the calls are false, it's more that the calls aren't followed through to completion, so they're considered incomplete," Maria Salguero, a Mexican femicide investigator and creator of a national femicide map told CNN.
Overall, 987 women and girls were murdered in the first four months of 2020, according to government data.
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