Rivera Garza was left with a slowly vanishing outline of her sister - and boxes of letters, diary entries and poems in Liliana’s own hand that, until January 2020, she dared not open. She became one of the hundreds of women killed with impunity in Mexico every year. She was 20, an architecture student with an ear for poetry and a penchant for writing letters on grid-paper notepads.īy the time an arrest warrant was filed for Liliana’s ex-boyfriend months later, he had disappeared. On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was found dead in her apartment in Azcapotzalco, a working-class borough of Mexico City. “The legal process was stalling, it was very slow, I didn’t see any kind of clear commitment on the side of the authorities,” Rivera Garza said. It also shed light on aspects of her sister’s life that Rivera Garza had never known - and, as she shared on social media last week, led to the first real breakthrough in the case in decades. When she did, the book came as part of a collective call for justice in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for women. It took Cristina Rivera Garza 30 years to write the story of her sister’s unsolved murder.
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