Three LGBT+ activists killed in Mexico

Three LGBT+ activists were found dead in Mexico last Sunday. Rubén Estrada, Roberto Vega, and Carlos Uriel López were found in Taxco, a city in the Mexican state of Guerrero. They were leaving a nighclub in the early hours of the morning when a group of men tried to mug them.

When they refused to hand over their money they were then forced into a van and driven away. A local paper showed photos of the bodies, which appear to show the activists having been shot in the head. Another local paper is reporting they were tortured before they were killed.

Estradam 35, organised Taxco’s Pride March, López was his partner. All three were heavily involved in the local LGBT+ community.

“We are sad, depressed,” said Gaby Soberanis of the LGBTI group Diversidad Guerrero, “They were young. They had a future ahead of them. The entire state’s LGBTI rights movement is sad, is in mourning.”

“The loss is for a society that demands equality, freedom and an end to violence. We demand justice,” said Lol Kin Castañeda, a lesbian activist and a member of the Mexico City Constituent Assembly.

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