Breathe
By Yohali Reséndiz
In Colonia Colón in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 12-year-old Lupita was known and recognized for being a vendor of traditional sweets.
Last October 19, she and her older sister separated to follow the established sales route and arranged as always to meet at a certain point, only Lupita never arrived.
Hours passed and his disappearance triggered a neighborhood alert.
That Saturday Lupita's family decided to report her disappearance.
In groups, neighbors and family members organized themselves to print and then paste Lupita's photo house by house and every time they found a security camera they requested the videos to contribute to the investigation.
All cooperated except at one address.
At the same time the Amber Alert was issued by the State Attorney General's Office and shared on social networks, so we knew Lupita's face and her story began to be known outside of Chiapas.
The puzzle of the sequence of videos that were recovered on the route that Lupita traveled was lost on the radar in the area of the same home that had not provided the image from its cameras.
Hours later it would be identified as the place where Lupita entered and a man 3 times her age had taken her life.
Upon entering, it was observed that a patio connected with the home of 3 families. Today, with more calm, one of them recognizes and remembers that on Tuesday, October 22, he heard muffled screams and then.... silence.
This man shouted:
-Victor, is everything all right?
-Yes, everything is fine. Replied the assassin.
At that moment, Victor José Carrera Mayor, 45 years old, slit the throat while sexually abusing Lupita, a girl with language problems who could not articulate the words: Help! Help me!
It was 4 days later that Lupita's family found the address. They even rested outside while the murderer looked out and politely greeted them.
Lupita was found lifeless... Semi-buried in the backyard of the house of the man whose family assures that this was not the first femicide that Victor Jose Carrera Mayor had committed, as he had another crime written on his record 28 years earlier when he slit the throat of his sister, then 10 years old, and for which he was only punished for a few months in a juvenile detention center without achieving "readaptation" because he was 17 years old.
Víctor José Carrera Mayor has been accused of violence and of sowing fear among family members, schoolmates and the community at the hands of a criminal gang.
Years later, life would take him to Europe also to commit crimes and destiny would bring him back as a sort of cake seller. However, Víctor José Carrera Mayor was still a potential murderer.
That afternoon, Wednesday, when Lupita's body was unearthed, Victor Jose Carrera Mayor fled less than an hour from the house and eluded authorities at least twice without being caught.
And while the bitter and painful news about the discovery of Lupita's body was being shared on social networks, her murderer was "liking" the different publications from his Facebook page, but the networks would also do their own thing with him, taking media revenge and massively sharing his face, provided in a search form by the Attorney General's Office of the State of Chiapas, along with a reward offer of half a million pesos to anyone who gave precise information about his whereabouts. Once again, the femicide escaped from the investigating police who were on his trail.
Last Sunday, October 27, 2024, the lifeless body of Victor Jose Carrera Mayor was found inside a house of the renowned Club Residencial La Vista.
At first glance, anyone would think that he had taken his own life, since he was tied to a railing, with light wires around his neck and bruised in the face, but the necropsy data revealed an important fact: the absence of two teeth and blunt blows to the skull and face.
So there was room here, journalistically, for a doubt that would later be solved by the forensic comparative of the tattoos on his left arm and shoulder that portray his violence and the darkness that inhabited his soul.
And the question: did the police beat him to death and fake suicide or was it organized crime that did its part to bring justice to Lupita?
Whatever the answer, the majority of the population celebrated the discovery, although they would also have preferred that Lupita's crime be paid for in jail.
As of 2018, although they want to hide it, Chiapas lives in anxiety, those colorful towns full of life, people and glory have become ghosts. The sum of shame gives a total of 30 thousand displaced people and the people of Chiapas have lost their peace because organized crime, as in any cardinal point of this country, has also gained ground. Gone, long gone, are the hours of fun, lights and music that are now turned off early. Gone are the road trips without the fear of being kidnapped.
Today, Chiapas seems to be facing a curfew and the feeling of violence goes up another step after the murder of a father and, of course, the condemnable, atrocious and painful feminicide of Lupita...
Rest in peace, Lupita...
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