Friday, January 12, 2024

Miriam Nohemí Ríos Ríos assassinated yesterday

A Mexican local leader was assassinated yesterday.

"Miriam Nohemí Ríos Ríos, comisionada de Movimiento Ciudadano en Jacona, Michoacán, fue asesinada la tarde de este jueves."
Matan a comisionada trans de MC en Michoacán: Los primeros reportes señalan que la víctima se encontraba en su negocio de gorras ubicado en avenida Juárez, la colonia Libertad, cuando un grupo de armados le disparó. Redacción AN / AG. Aristegui Noticias. 11 Jan, 2024.

Con profundo dolor el Observatorio Nacional de Crímenes de Odio contra personas LGBTI+, se une a la pena que embarga a familiares y amigos de Miriam Rios. Mujer trans activista y comisionada municipal quien el día de hoy fue asesinada en Michoacán. Exigimos JUSTICIA pronta y expedita a las autoridades y que se aplique el Protocolo Homologado.

A few months later, another local leader, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, was assassinated:

"The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead Monday, authorities said, just hours after the country elected its first female president in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates.

Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state, was walking from a gym back to her house with her bodyguard when they were shot by people in a white van, the state attorney general said in a statement.

Both Sánchez Figueroa and her bodyguard later died in hospital..."

Woman mayor killed in Mexico just hours after election of first female president, Omar Fajardo, Mitchell McCluskey and Kathleen Magramo, CNN, June 5, 2024

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