Mexican Senate demands explanation from Governor Peña Nieto on femicides.

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.

Five years of Peña Nieto: Mexico State worst in country for femicides.

The many and mostly unresolved murders in Júarez, Chihuahua, introduced into the mainstream a horrifying word, "femicide," or the deliberate killing of women. 

Yet according to the Observatorio Ciudadano Nacional del Feminicidio, the state that topped the list of most women murders in 2009 was not Chihuahua or any of the "drug war" states, but Mexico State: Out of 1700 registered murders of women, 309 happened in Edomex. 

Now these are, to be sure, absolute figures, and Mexico State's huge population base must be taken in mind, but it is nonetheless an alarmingly high figure, particularly as Mexico City only counts 80 cases. 

Yet another dent in Peña Nieto's media-created image.