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Femicide cases in Mexico have increased by 137 percent in the last five years.
last year to make the issue of violence against women"a priority for the government.” But many women feel Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has brushed off the crisis. In reference to the 26,171 people who called the country’s emergency call center in March about violent incidences against women, López ObradorWhen asked directly about the high number of killings of women in Mexico, he said it had"been manipulated a lot in the media.
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