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malaise

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:30 AM Sep 2025

Thousands protest the murders of three women in Argentina

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/argentina-drug-traffickers-livestream-killing-women

The murder of two young Argentinian women and a girl whose torture by suspected drug traffickers was livestreamed on a private Instagram group has sent shock waves through a country unused to such extreme levels of narco violence.

Brenda del Castillo, 20, Morena Verdi, 20, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, went missing on Friday, after they were lured to a house in the outskirts of Buenos Aires by a promise that they would be paid US $300 for taking part in a “sex party”.

Instead, authorities say, they were seized and tortured by the traffickers, who streamed the abuse to 45 people via a closed Instagram group, before killing them and burying them in plastic bags outside the house.

https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-thousands-march-for-women-murdered-on-livestream/a-74162968

Thousands of protesters gathered in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, on Saturday to call for justice for three young women whose torture and murders were broadcast live on social media.

Some demonstrators held placards with the names and pictures of the victims — Morena Verdi and Brenda Del Castillo, cousins aged 20, and 15-year-old Lara Gutierrez. One sign read "It was a narco-feminicide!"

"Women must be protected more than ever," said Del Castillo's father, Leonel, at the protest.

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Good effin grief this planet is sick. They livestream torture and murder.



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