In Mexico, feminist and LGBTQ+ rights advocates took to the streets of Juárez to denounce rising femicides in the border city and the recent killing of a same-sex couple.

Mexico City, January 22 (RHC)-- In Mexico, feminist and LGBTQ+ rights advocates took to the streets of Juárez to denounce rising femicides in the border city and the recent killing of a same-sex couple.

The remains of Yulizsa Ramírez and Nohemí Medina Martínez were found Sunday.  They were tortured, shot, dismembered and dumped in plastic trash bags along a highway.  The couple was in Juárez visiting family, but reports say they lived in El Paso, Texas. 

An organizer of the protest, Miguel Jacome said: “Unfortunately, Juárez is known for femicides and also for murders by criminal groups.  I think that people sometimes want to minimize the fact that it was a gay couple that was killed here, because there are so many murders.  But there is a pattern of violence in the documented cases against LGBT people.”

Protesters demanded justice for all, pointing to at least 11 women who have been killed in Juárez in the first three weeks of 2022.