South American femicide continues to increase at shockingly high rates

Over 3,000 murders each year

AidĂ© Nava, a mayoral candidate and mother from Ahuacuotzingo Village in Mexico was found decapitated on the streets of her own town. Gangsters are believed to be behind several kidnappings where women are tortured, raped and decapitated. 

MUNTINLUPA CITY, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - According to Daily Mail, a group of brutal gangsters are believed to be behind Nava's death. Her body was found on a road covered with a sheet spray painted with the message "This will happen to anyone who doesn't get in line." 
Police were unable to identify her body without her head, so her daughter Ahilin Quinones was called in. Quinones told MailOnline, "The police told us they couldn't identify the body without the head ... I was forced to recognize my mother's corpse by a birthmark she had on her forearm."

Unfortunately, 19-year-old Quinones has lost everything to the gangsters who terrorize her home town. Her father, Fransisco Quinones, was a town mayor, but was murdered at gunpoint only nine months before she was asked to identify her mother's body. 
She had an older brother who was believed kidnapped by the gang in 2012. Locals suspect Quinones and her sister Vanessa could be the cartel's next targets. Quinones said that women go missing every day from this region.
She worries for her six-month-old daughter and hopes to escape the dangerous country and move to the United States to find safety from terrorism. 

Based on the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, six women are murdered in Mexico every day. In a 2013 quarterly report, a record of 3,892 murders were listed. The southern Guerrero state is the most dangerous place for women in South America.
According to official statistics and reports, there has been a 343 percent increase in femicide over the past three years, with more than 500 women being murdered annually in Mexico.

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