Oaxaca: Frida Alondra, a 17-year-old girl was found dead

Frida Alondra Ruiz, a 17-year-old Afro-Mexican girl, was found dead in the community of El Soto, in the state of Oaxaca.

The minor, originally from the neighbouring community of Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero, had been reported missing since Saturday, April 9.

“His body was found in one of the harvested roads of San Juan Bautista Lo de Soto, Oaxaca, a municipality adjacent to his home community and where Frida would have attended the festivities on the occasion of Friday of Sorrows that were celebrated,” the MUAFRO collective explained in a statement.

The Afro-Mexican Women's Collective of the Costa Chica of Oaxaca and Guerrero demanded that the government of the State of Oaxaca conduct a prompt and expedited investigation with an intercultural and gender perspective that would allow the clarification of the femicide of Frida Alondra.

“This act of extreme violence against a young Afro-Mexican woman is not an isolated event, it occurs in a context of impunity and widespread violence in our territories and in the country, in a femicidal Mexico where 11 women are murdered daily,” the group expanded.

According to local press reports, the staff of the Oaxaca Attorney General's Office found that the minor's body, in an apparent state of decomposition, showed signs of beatings and signs that she had been sexually assaulted.

On social networks, neighbors of the community of Cuajinicuilapa condemned the murder and demanded that the authorities arrest and punish him or those responsible for the femicide.

In Veracruz, the case of María Fernanda Contreras Ruíz, whose lifeless body was found on April 7 in the Exhacienda de Santa Rosa colony, in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon.

The Attorney General's Office of the State of Nuevo León (FGE) reported that it completed the arrest warrant against 26-year-old Raúl Alfredo “N”, identified as the alleged feminicide.

The last time the young woman was seen alive was on Sunday, April 3, when she went with a group of friends from Tecnológico de Monterrey, the school where she studied, to Zona Tec, located in the south of Monterrey.

Later, Maria Fernanda informed her friends that she was going with a companion to the municipality of Apodaca, which is located in the metropolitan area of the capital of Nuevo León, to allegedly see a vehicle.

“It's the weird thing, they say she went to see a car or a van, but she already has a car. The car that has spread, a 2017 Mazda 3, is hers. We don't understand why she would want to have an extra car or something,” said the young woman's friends.

Later, Maria Fernanda's father confirmed to the authorities that the young woman traveled to Apodaca in the company of a friend to see the vehicle, which was reported to the State Prosecutor's Office.

After carrying out her task, the young woman informed between 8 pm and 9 pm that she would be on her way back home, at which point they lost all communication with her.

After losing contact with the young woman, her family started a social media campaign to try to find her whereabouts, joined by several people, who shared the girl's information and demanded her submission to the authorities. For its part, the FGE released the search form a day after the proceedings initiated by the victim's relatives.

After launching the social media search campaign, María Fernanda's relatives conducted research on their own in the places she last visited, where they managed to locate her cell phone.

The information and evidence were given to the Nuevo León prosecutor's office, who were accused of inaction by the victim's own relatives, which sparked a series of protests on social networks and in the streets of Monterrey, demanding justice for María Fernanda.

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