A psychologist working with gender and reproductive health was found murdered in a ditch with signs of being tortured in Mexico Monday. Police are treating the case as if it were a crime of passion and not a murder fueled by hate. There have been protests in Puebla calling for hate crimes protections, investigating this torture murder as a murder and to express angst at the loss of such a powerful advocate.
Sadly there is one less beautiful Mexican woman in the world: After she mysterious disappeared on Friday, the body of trans activist Agnes Torres was found in a ditch outside Puebla the following day.
According to local authorities Torres was found naked with burn marks across her body, suggesting she was tortured.
To have this happen to the most active Transwoman in Mexico raises questions as to the perpetrators as this was not some easily dismissed woman existing via survival sex but an educated professional woman making a difference in how her fellow women were treated. Sadly the fact that she was tortured is no longer surprising as grisly as that sounds.
"We demand that they enact a hate crime, we believe that while not criminalize such conduct will continue with unfortunate statements and biased by the authorities, who qualify any killing of a dissident sexual crimes of passion, even when the victims are finalized in great fury and extreme violence, "Onan said Vazquez Chavez, president of the whole life of Puebla.