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NORTH MIAMI, Fla. -- Enrique Gonzalez has become a familiar fixture outside the Publix supermarket in North Miami, where he stops by every evening with a stack of missing-person flyers emblazoned with his 13-year-old daughter's photograph.
The news media was fascinated with the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito. But the families of many women who go missing, especially women of color, struggle for attention.
A report by Syra Ortiz-Blanes for The Miami Herald. Puerto Rico will prosecute a person under a new law that codifies gender-related killings as first-degree murder for the first time, part of the government’s battle against violence towards women. The law, which Gov. Pedro Pierluisi signed a week ago, defines what constitutes feminicides and transfeminicides…
Violent deaths of 2 women in Puerto Rico stoke sorrow, outrage as femicides mount Syra Ortiz-Blanes, The Miami Herald © RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/AFP/TNS Flowers and messages are left on the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge, where the body of Keishla Rodriguez was allegedly dumped by Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, May 3, 2021. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo was ordered held without bail Monday in the death of his 27-year-old pregnant girlfriend and an unborn child in the latest femicide to outrage the island after the gove...