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Mexican Congresswomen Urge Full Investigation Into Nogales Disappearance

 Cecilia Yépiz Reyna
Wendy Briceño Zuloaga
Cecilia Yépiz Reyna went missing in Nogales, Sonora, on Jan. 5, 2021. Her death is being considered a femicide.

A group of nearly two dozen Mexican congresswomen have put out a statement expressing concern over the disappearance of a woman in the border town of Nogales, Sonora, more than two weeks ago.

Cecilia Yépiz Reyna went missing in Nogales, Sonora, on Jan. 5. Now a group of legislators representing the Gender Equality Commission are pushing for the case to receive national attention after what they are calling silence on the part of state officials.

In a statement released earlier this week, they wrote that even after her car was found apparently abandoned in a store parking lot, not a single local or state authority put out a statement about her disappearance.

And the lawmakers urged Sonora’s Attorney General’s Office to carry out a full investigation with the help of local, state and federal law enforcement.

Yépiz, 49, had been working as a city planning director in Nogales, Sorora, but quit her job in December.

Kendal Blust was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2018 to 2023.