Murder of Mexican Artist Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
(WorldNews Mexico)

Isabel Cabanillas, a 26-year-old beloved feminist activist and artist, was recently assassinated in Ciudad Juárez, resurfacing the border city´s painful legacy of femicides and violence against women. Cabanillas was reported missing on social media by her friends on Saturday, January 18, after she never returned home. On that same day, she was found shot to death on a sidewalk next to her bicycle in downtown Juárez. We speak with Nana Rebell, a feminist activist in Ciudad Juárez and a member of the Juárez feminist collective Hijas de su Maquilera Madre, about Cabanillas´s life and the endemic issue of femicide in the region. TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org,...