Overview
- LGBT+ collectives marched Monday from Las Tarascas to the state palace in Morelia to demand justice for Daniela and to have the case treated as a hate crime.
- Daniela Martínez Silva, a trans woman, was found dead in a drainage channel on the city’s north ring road with visible injuries, and authorities have not announced any arrests.
- The Michoacán human rights commission condemned the killing and urged an investigation with a gender and diversity lens that avoids revictimization and examines possible discriminatory motives.
- Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla said Congress is reviewing a proposal to define transfeminicide, a legal category for killings of trans women, and noted the state now investigates crimes against women as femicide.
- Activist groups pressed the state attorney general’s office to use specialized units for crimes against sexual diversity, saying targeted expertise could quicken inquiries and help prevent repeat attacks.