President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the sending to the Senate of a reform to eradicate femicide in Mexico, which proposes to homologate the investigation and sanction with prison sentences of 40 to 70 years. In the morning conference, she explained that the reform initiative proposes to enact a General Law on the Prevention, Investigation and Punishment of Femicide, foreseeing the homologation of laws in all entities so that the Public Ministries are obliged to investigate any violent death of a woman as femicide. "This will force no Public Ministry, as has happened many times, to say: 'she committed suicide', 'it was aspiration'. No," she stated. The Attorney General, Ernestina Godoy, detailed that it proposes to homologate the type of crime in which nine gender-based reasons are recognized: signs of sexual violence, degrading or infamous injuries, history of violence, prejudices, stereotypes, existence of power or subordination relationships, that the victim was isolated, that she is in a state of defenselessness or that her body was exposed, among others. "We are establishing a prison sentence of 40 to 70 years. There are still many cases. Attempt is punished with a prison sentence of half to two-thirds. In this sense, it proposes access to the truth and justice and urgent medical and psychological attention, among other aspects. In addition, it mandates that on digital platforms there cannot be images of the victims.
