Mia Levitin

Femicide in Mexico reaches staggering proportions

Ten women, on average, are killed there every day – and Cristina Rivera Garza’s investigation of her sister’s murder is met with the usual ‘silence of impunity’

Cristina Rivera Garza. [© Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Fondation Jan Michalski, 2022] 
issue 11 March 2023

In July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, a 20-year-old architecture student, was strangled to death at her home in a borough of Mexico City. Her suspected killer, Ángel González Ramos, an ex-boyfriend, fled and remained at large. Three decades later, buttressed by a movement protesting against violence towards women, her sister returned to Mexico in the hopes of finding justice.

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