The murders of women in Mexico State is drawing national attention.
All parties represented in the Mexican Senate voted unanimously to demand that Mexico State Governor Enrique Peña Nieto come up with a report on the high number of femicides, or targeted murders of women and young girls, in his state. As noted earlier, Mexico State is the worst entity in Mexico in sheer numbers: Out of 2015 murders of women and girls in 18 of Mexico's 32 entities between Jan. 2007-Dec. 2009, 556 took place in Mexico State.
Notably, even PRI's senators voted for the agreement, which also called for Peña Nieto to "redesign and implement public policies for the prevention, deterrence, punishment and eradication of circumstances that generate and foster the murders of women," and specifically for the state Attorney General's office, whose shocking incompetence was exposed in the infamous Paulette case, to punish those responsible.
