Femicide at the University of the Valley Reopens Debate on Male Violence in Higher Education

The student community of Universidad del Valle, the most important of the Colombian Suroccident, announced an indefinite cessation of activities and declared itself in emergency for gender-based violence. This decision was made at an assembly on Thursday following the femicide recorded on campus on May 8, when Sirley López and María José Barrero, two students, were injured after an ex-student opened fire on one of them inside the campus. Days af…

This Friday, May 16, 2025, the murder of Colombian influencer María José Estupiñán, better known as "La Mona," was reported. She received a gift before losing her life. The case occurred under similar circumstances to the murder of Mexican influencer Valeria Márquez. The murder of the 22-year-old Colombian influencer occurred in Cúcuta, when she was shot after receiving a mysterious gift at her doorstep. According to local media, a person posed …

The judicial authorities of Cúcuta are in the process of investigating the murder of 22-year-old María José Estupiñán Sánchez, a seventh semester student of the Social Communication program of the Francisco de Paula Santander University (UFPS), which occurred on the morning of Wednesday, May 15, in the sector of El Bosque, west of the city. According to preliminary reports, the incident was recorded around 8:12 a.m., when the young woman was app…

Young university student was murdered by a fake house when she went to receive a TuBarco gift News In video the moment was recorded when the alleged material author of the fact escaped from the crime scene. Noticias Colombia. María José Estupiñán Sánchez, a 22-year-old girl and a seventh semester student of Social Communication at Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (UFPS), was murdered on the morning of Thursday, May 15, 2025, in front of …

Authorities are investigating whether the crime may be related to a domestic violence case. A 22-year-old woman, identified as María José Estupiñán, a Social Communication student at Francisco de Paula Santander University, was shot and killed outside her residence in the El Bosque neighborhood of Cúcuta. According to Colonel Leonardo Capacho, commander of District One of the Metropolitan Police, the incident occurred when the young woman left h…