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to pay a smuggler. In any case, the
passage was too dangerous these
days. Especially for children, Jesús
added. “We think Canada is a more
peaceful country,” Lorena said. They
had gone to the Canadian Embassy
but were not allowed past the gates.
They had only a vague understand-
ing of the process of applying for
asylum. “We need help getting out
of here,” she said. “And if they
won’t take me and my husband, at
least take the children. Because
they will kill us all here in Mexico.”
They feared they could disappear at
any time. A truck would pull up and
men would step out and that would
be it. They would be driven to a des-
olate place, perhaps a river filled
with trash, perhaps a desiccated
cornfield, or one of those military
bases where the ground is packed
with bones. “All Mexico is a mass
grave,” Lorena said. “A vast, vast
lake of blood.”
“Sometimes I think it’s all a con-
spiracy,” she continued, half to her-
self. “Not just of this government,
but governments of all the world.
They don’t realize what they’re do-
ing. We, the women, are the ones
who give life. If they destroy us, they
destroy everything.”
The family will never go back to
Casas Viejas. “Fátima was murdered
in 2015,” Lorena said. “They are
killing twice as many women and
girls now. Every day the murders get
more sadistic, more frightening.” In
October and November, the instanc-
es of femicide in and around Ecate-
pec that María Salguero added to her
map included a woman in her thir-
ties whose naked body looked to
have been mauled by a pack of dogs
and a woman of unknown age
found beaten and gagged on the
side of a highway. In December, a
woman was thrown from a van and
set on fire, and an eighteen-year-old
girl’s body was found alongside a
footpath on a weed-grown lot. She
had been arteramente asesinada,
“artfully” or cunningly murdered, in
the ambiguous phrasing of María
Salguero’s informant, in a manner
said to have caused “indignation” in
the neighborhood. The girl’s name
was Anayeli. The other women
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