Chiapas Authorities Capture Alleged Feminicide of Two Indigenous Youths in Chamula · Global Voices

Photo: Ángeles Mariscal We make an urgent call to the state government to strengthen the gender perspective in the representatives of the various units, as well as to guarantee the delivery of justice considering the differentiated violence experienced by girls and adolescent girls because they are women, were the words of the Network for the Rights of Children and Adolescents in Chiapas (REDIAS). The Network made this statement in the context o…

It was reported on April 22 that the Prosecutor’s Office of Chiapas arrested Vicente “N” in Tabasco State. De Villahermosa, he was transferred to the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, to be prosecuted. Vicent “N” was arrested for the alleged femicide of two young Tzotziles, 14 and 18 years old. The incident was reported in the municipality of Chamula, on April 18. Witnesses found the two victims, with signs of violence, on the rural r…

SAN CHRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS.— Vicente “N” was arrested for his involvement in the double feminicide of the 14- and 18-year-old Deysi Guadalupe and Rosa Valeria sisters, whose bodies were abandoned in the early morning of Saturday in a spot on the road stretch San Cristóbal-San Juan Chamula, Chiapas. In a conference, the Attorney General of Chiapas, Jorge Luis Keyran Abarca, indicated that Vicente “N” was arrested by elements of the Tabasco Publi…

Alexander Carmelo Ara, 51, was apprehended by the Corps of Criminal and Criminal Scientific Research (CICPC), accused of the femicide Maria Carolina Vera Muñoz (43), which occurred on the morning of April 8 in Bolívar State. Upon the investigation, the authorities determined that that day, Ara took the victim [...] The entry He was arrested for committing femicide: He hit her with a stone and then buried the body was first published in Informati…

The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas, Jorge Luis Keyran Abarca, gave a press conference in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to report on the significant progress in the investigation of the double femicide perpetrated in the municipality of Chamula, where Rosa “N” and a minor whose identity is kept secret. In this meeting with the media, the prosecutor announced the arrest of Vicente “N”, designated as the alleged responsible for this crime.

The Chiapas Public Prosecutor’s Office will request a maximum sentence of up to 150 years’ imprisonment for Vicente “N”, arrested in Tabasco for the femicide of Rosa Valeria “N” and her younger sister in Chamula. The crime, attributed to a jealous attack, was... Complete note »