A total of 14 women have died violently so far in 2018. According to figures from the Observatory on Gender Violence against Women and Access to Justice, with official information from the Inter-Institutional Sub-Commission for the Registration of Femicide, to date there are four homicides, five deaths pending investigation by the Judicial Branch, and five femicides.
The figures are alarming and concern the National Institute for Women (INAMU) and Public Ministry. The year 2017 ended with 26 murders like these.
The Sub-Commission, the only one with the power to establish the official figure of femicides, classified the deaths of women as follows:
Legal femicide: deaths of women at the hands of their spouses or current partners, typified by article 21 of the Law on Criminalization of Violence against Women (LPVcM).
Extended Femicide: violent deaths of women due to their gender, where there was no relationship, marriage, or common-law relationship.
Homicide of women: not legal or expanded femicide.