Amid femicide epidemic, Mexico prosecutor charged with cover-up in a single mom's death
MEXICO CITY — Mexico City prosecutors and federal troops have arrested the chief law enforcement officer of the neighboring state of Morelos on charges that he covered up the killing of a woman whose case dramatized what some call an epidemic of femicides — the murder of women because of their gender.
Scores of Mexico City police accompanied by Mexican marines brandishing assault rifles swooped down Friday on the home of Uriel Carmona, the Morelos attorney general, as Carmona, in telephone interviews with journalists from his residence in the state capital of Cuernavaca, professed his innocence and said he was a victim of politics.
