Murder of Mexican Artist Isabel Cabanillas Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

Isabel Cabanillas, a 26-year-old beloved feminist activist and artist, was recently assassinated in Ciudad Juirez, resurfacing the border city's painful legacy of femicides and violence against women. Cabanillas was reported missing on social media by her friends on Saturday, January 18, after she never returned home. On that same day, she was found shot to death on a sidewalk next to her bicycle in downtown Juirez. We speak with Nana Rebell, a feminist activist in Ciudad Juirez and a member of the Juirez feminist collective Hijas de su Maquilera Madre, about Cabanillas's life and the endemic issue of femicide in the region.