Femicides Still Scar Mexico
The murder of Edith Guadalupe provokes fury, horror, and desperation
Edith Guadalupe Valdés, 21, left her home in the Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa on Wednesday afternoon, her family say, to head to an interview at what she believed was a modeling agency in the middle-class Nonoalco neighborhood. Using an app to get a ride on a motorcycle, she arrived at the address in a block of apartments and pinged her location to a cousin. Soon after, she went off the radar.
By evening, family members were distraught and went to the police station, or what is known as the fiscalia, to report her missing. However, officers said they had to follow procedure and wait 72 hours to investigate a disappearance, speculating Edith could have absconded with a boyfriend. Moreover, an aunt says that an officer asked for a bribe to begin investigating right away.
When no news came by Thursday morning, family members hired a private detective and by afternoon they blocked a key crossroads to put pressure on police to search the apartment block, at 829 Revolución Avenue. When officers finally went in at 1 am on Friday morning, they scoured the building and found…
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