Overview
- The court ruled that Mexico violated judicial guarantees, judicial protection, equality and the right to truth by failing to investigate diligently and by not preventing or clarifying attacks on the victim’s mother, Norma Esther Andrade.
- The judgment situates the case in a long-documented pattern of gender-based violence and impunity in Ciudad Juárez, citing the 2009 Campo Algodonero precedent.
- Ordered measures include resuming effective investigations to identify and punish material and intellectual authors, a public act of acknowledgment and apology, institutional diagnostics, improved implementation of the Alba Protocol and specialized care for the family.
- Mexico made a partial acknowledgment of responsibility during the proceedings for failures in prevention and gender-sensitive response, which the court found insufficient given persistent systemic deficiencies.
- A domestic criminal case opened in 2023 against a suspect in Chihuahua remains ongoing nearly 25 years after the crime, as the court sets supervision of compliance and requires a formal progress report within one year.