Mexico Issues Arrest Warrant for Suspect in Claudia Tacoronte Murder
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
CUERNAVACA, Mexico – The Morelos State Attorney General's Office (FGE) announced on Wednesday that an arrest warrant has been issued for the alleged perpetrator of the femicide of Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte. The suspect has been identified as Francisco Javier 'N', and state authorities have launched a search operation for his capture. 'I want to inform you that yesterday we obtained from a specialized judge, the Femicide Prosecutor's Office obtained an arrest warrant for the femicide of Claudia Tacoronte against a male… This person is named Francisco Javier 'N' and is attributed responsibility for Claudia's femicide,' stated prosecutor Fernando Blumenkron Escobar to the media. Blumenkron noted that investigative efforts and videos provided by the public, among other evidence, enabled the Specialized Prosecutor's Office to request the arrest warrant from the judicial authority. Claudia Tacoronte had arrived in Mexico in mid-August for an exchange program at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM) and was residing in Cuernavaca, the state capital. Tacoronte had traveled to Cuautla, an hour from Cuernavaca, to participate in the National Medicinal Plant Festival. Her sister, Lara Tacoronte, posted a video from Spain on Tuesday confirming that Claudia had been in Cuautla for 'less than a month, three weeks' as part of an exchange program from the University of Granada, where she was studying Early Childhood Education. 'She went to Mexico on exchange and last night (Sunday) someone tried to steal her phone, a man. She ran away, he chased her and stabbed her in the abdomen. Not once, but several times, without any justification,' she recounted. This marks the fourth UAEM student murdered in seven months, following the cases of Kimberly Ramos, Karol Toledo, and Michelle Itzayana Fuentes, which had already sparked protests and student strikes. On Tuesday, classmates of the murdered Spanish student protested in Cuernavaca, 74 miles south of Mexico City, demanding more security and justice from Morelos Governor Margarita González, who has promised to 'find the responsible party.' 'It's horrible. We have no security whatsoever, neither from the institution (UAEM) nor the police; I just feel like they are there for decoration,' emphasized Dana, a student at the university, outside the Government Palace. In Morelos, 69 women were murdered between January and July 2026 (21 femicides and 48 intentional homicides), out of a total of 1,250 violent deaths of women in Mexico (380 femicides and 870 intentional homicides), according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP).
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