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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Sarah Morland and Carolina Pulice

Failures by Mexican law enforcement aggravate rise in killings of women

FILE PHOTO: A girl places a flower on the site where the dead body of Ariadna Fernanda Lopez was found on the highway Mexico-Cuernavaca, in Tepoztlan, Morelos state, Mexico November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha/

When 27-year-old Ariadna Lopez was found dead beside a highway in the central Mexican state of Morelos in October, local investigators were fast to declare there were "no signs of violence."

Their version - that Lopez died of asphyxiation as a result of alcohol intoxication - quickly unraveled.

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