Televisa releases a documentary on the femicide of Debanhi Escobar

Televisa, in collaboration with N+ Docs, will premiere #Todas. Debanhi, una historia de redes (Todas. Debanhi, a story of networks) on March 6, a documentary about the femicide of the young Debanhi Escobar in Nuevo León, in April 2022. The journalistic investigation shows the violence against women in the northern state and recounts the case of Escobar and two other women murdered shortly after: Yolanda Martínez and María Fernanda Contreras, which occurred in the middle of a wave of violence against women after the protests of March 8 of that year. The three cases share common points: the indolence of the authorities, institutional abuse, lack of clarification and impunity. A figure that in Mexico exceeds 95% in cases of femicide.

The femicide of Debanhi and the authorities' poor handling of the case, which tried to pass off the version that the girl had drowned in a cistern at the Nueva Castilla motel as true, triggered protests and citizen mobilizations that marked the country. The last image of Debanhi, taken by an Uber driver, still remains in the collective memory. Three years later, few know what happened to the young woman. Her femicide remains unsolved and no one has been arrested. The case remains in a dead end that will remain as a stain on Samuel García's Government and that showed the manipulation and lack of investigation in the country's prosecutors' offices.

When authorities fail and the State mistreats victims and their families, new forms of resistance emerge in society. This documentary aims to reveal different types of these networks: on the one hand, a network of complicity that makes violence against women persist and, on the other, a network of resistance made up of family members and feminist activists to demand justice.

The work of Arisbeth Márquez in the direction and Diego Enrique Osorno in the production seeks to make visible the sexist violence that exists in Mexico, inform the public and demand responsibility and justice from the authorities. The documentary includes testimonies from the victims' families and perspectives from activist organizations and feminist collectives from Monterrey and Mexico City.

The first of three episodes will be available on March 4th, openly, on the Las Estrellas channel, after the En Punto newscast ends. The rest of the programming will be available on the Vix platform starting on March 6th.