In one year in the State of Mexico there were 563 homicides of women, of which only 115 were classified as femicide, said Maria de la Luz Estrada, coordinator of the National Observatory of Femicides.
In a press conference, she said that this was the number of deaths that occurred between from 2011 to 2012, in 10 municipalities of the state, among them Ecatepec, Nezahualcoyotl, Tlalnepantla, Toluca and Naucalpan.
Estrada regretted that the state authorities did not take into account the criteria used to classify many killings as femicides.
Meanwhile, a group of women from Ciudad Juárez announced that they had met with the Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam, to demand that the federal Executive hear their demands regarding femincides in that city.
"We want them to take on cases from the state [Chihuahua] for investigation, since state officials have not rendered accounts to mothers who today are sitting-in in front of the Secretariat of Government Relations," they said.Spanish original