Another female activist is slain in Mexico

A Mexican activist who led protests against the unsolved killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez has herself been murdered. Susana Chavez was found strangled and with one hand cut off in Ciudad Juarez last week, but has only now been identified. Chavez tried to draw attention to the killing of mainly poor women in the border town in the 1990s. Officials say her murder was not related to her activism. The Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office said she was killed by three teenagers high on drugs, who cut off her hand to make it look like the murder was connected to organized crime. Chavez, 36, coined the slogan "Not One More Death", which became popular at protests against the Ciudad Juarez killings and the failure of the police to solve them. More than 300 women were murdered in Ciudad Juarez in a wave of violence which started in 1993 and lasted for a decade. There is no generally accepted motive for the murders. Source: BBC