Susana Chavez, a human rights activist, was best known for her poetry and actions to help raise awareness of the violence towards women, especially in the border-city of Juarez. After years of activism, Chavez has fallen to the same violence she has fought against.
Via Fox News Latino:
A poet and women’s rights activist was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, a gritty border metropolis that has become Mexico’s most violent city, officials and associates of the victim said.
Susana Chavez’s body was found last week, but it was not identified until Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Chavez’s left hand was chopped off and her body was dumped in a poor neighborhood in downtown Juarez, the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said.
Chavez organized protests to draw attention to crimes against women in the border city and participated in poetry readings that she dedicated to murdered women.