Mexican activist who counted murders in his violence-plagued city is himself killed

Source: Associated Press

Mexican activist who counted murders in his violence-plagued city is himself killed

Updated 12:37 PM EST, November 22, 2023

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An activist who documented murders in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities has himself been killed, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

Adolfo Enríquez was killed in the city of Leon, in north-central Guanajuato state. The city has the third-highest number of homicides in Mexico, trailing only the border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.

Enríquez described himself on his social media profiles as an “activist, demanding a country with the rule of law.”

For years, Enríquez has posted a simple, moving tally of each murder in Leon, writing just hours before his death that “murder number 55 in Leon so far in November just occurred in the Margaritas neighborhood.”

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