Between ballads and urban rhythms: these are the songs that demand justice for Debanhi Escobar

After confirming the death of Debanhi Escobar, social media users in Mexico and various countries have expressed their solidarity with the young woman's loved ones while demanding justice for the case, since it is presumed that she may have been the victim of femicide.

The young woman's family and friends have published videos and photographs with which they remember Debanhi as a sign of affection and demand, a campaign that is also joined by Internet users from various countries, who have composed songs to remember her.

Several of these songs were collected on an Instagram account that helped spread information about the case while search was active in the State of Nuevo León; on which you can see two of the songs originally published on Tik Tok.

One of the songs has an urban rhythm and is sung by a young man presumed to be from Colombia, in which he makes a general summary of the events and expressed the despair and anguish of Debanhi's relatives, who searched for her for weeks; he also expressed his indignation at the violent events in which Debanhi lost life.

Another social media user composed and sang a ballad describing the incident, in which he regrets that Debanhi was unable to stay alive due to the circumstances in which she was involved, as well as expressing the fear she must have felt when she was alone on the road.

For his part, the former member of the Mexican group Calibre 50, Edén Muñoz, published through his YouTube account a song specifically made in memory of Debanhi, which he complemented with an illustration inspired by the young woman's last photograph, which was taken on the Monterrey-Laredo highway before her disappearance.

The song titled Te Voy a Encontrar referred to the suffering experienced by Debanhi's relatives, which is shared by thousands of other families in the country, as they have also been victims in the crisis of disappearances and femicides in the country.

Various artists and social media users have expressed their outrage at the death of Debanhi Escobar, who was found inside a cistern of the Nueva Castilla Motel on 21 April, where authorities had already checked four times.

The Attorney General's Office of the State of Nuevo León, through the unit responsible for investigating crimes against women, reported that the case of the 18-year-old girl will be treated as femicide, since it is not ruled out that she has been the victim of gender-motivated aggression.

For their part, family, friends and activists demonstrated in Monterrey to demand clarification of the facts by the authorities, since they have denounced that the case has been handled inefficiently, as there have been various inconsistencies in the investigations submitted by the investigators.

Debanhi's father, Mario Escobar, has pointed out that the discovery of his daughter could have been a montage, as the inconsistencies of the case and various clues found by the authorities indicate that the act could have been manipulated to hide those responsible for the crime.

The last time Debanhi was seen alive was during the early morning of April 9, when she attended a meeting with her friends near the place where she was found dead, where she was abandoned by the driver of a taxi ordered by application, which had been recommended as “trustworthy”.

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