“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
It is 10:51 p.m. on Saturday, January 28 in the Venustiano Carranza neighborhood. A camera records the moment when a white car parks near the Progresista community drainage canal in the eastern part of the capital. Other vehicles are circulating but still two individuals pull a box out of the trunk. Inside is the lifeless body of a young woman.
A passerby passes a few meters away but goes back the way he came. One of the subjects drags the box down the street. He leaves it for a few moments while he approaches the trunk for his accomplice to give him a bag. The man places the bag on top of the box and again drags it to a dumpster. The other one watches as he comes and goes, apparently talking on the phone and waiting for the other individual.
When the one who dragged the box returns, he closes the trunk and climbs into the passenger side and the car drives off. Later the body of the victim between 25 and 30 years of age was found in this vacant lot that was used as a garbage dump. She had bruises, knife wounds, and signs of asphyxiation.
Figures from the Executive Secretary of the National Public Security System indicate that 2022 closed with a little more than 900 femicides in the country. 135 committed in the State of Mexico. And 74 in the capital. This case captured on video is currently being investigated by the prosecutor’s office, which just on Monday boasted a 54 percent increase in alleged femicides brought to trial. At this time the suspects of the white care have not been arrested.
