Mexican government statistics show that last year, 834 homicides were investigated as femicides, nearly twice the level of 2015
For months after 22-year-old Lesvy Berlín was found strangled to death in a phone booth on a Mexican university campus, police told her parents that their daughter had committed suicide.
The police only agreed to investigate the killing as a homicide motivated by her gender after a rush of national media attention and outcries from her family and women’s rights groups.
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