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January 23, 2020

Mexican Feminist & Activist Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre Killed in Juárez
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In Mexico, 26-year-old artist, activist and feminist Isabel Cabanillas
de la Torre has been assassinated in the border city of Juárez. She was
an outspoken advocate for women's rights and a member of the feminist
collective Daughters of Maquila Worker Mothers. Fellow activists are
demanding justice for her murder and an end to the femicides and
disappearances of women that have plagued Juárez since it became a
center of cheap manufacturing for American companies under the 1994
North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.


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