MEXICO CITY: Human rights activists in Mexico had already suffered a bad year by the time 58-year-old Cristina Vazquez was murdered in her apartment in an affluent Mexico City neighbourhood at the end of June.
More than 29,000 murders were registered in Mexico last year, and the total for 2019 is on track to go higher. Activists make up just a tiny fraction of the total, but their plight has heightened alarm over the surging violence. No suspect has been named over the killing and nobody has been charged so far. Local police did not respond to repeated requests by Reuters for comment on the case.
According to the OHCHR, 14 rights activists were killed in 2018. Tallies vary, and Mexico's National Human Rights Commission categorized Vazquez as the seventh such victim in 2019 after registering six last year. In February, indigenous activist Samir Flores was gunned down on his doorstep in the state of Morelos, after protesting a gas pipeline set to cut through his area.
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