Isabel Cabanillas

On January 18, 2020, Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre (May 5, 1993 – January 18, 2020), a mother, artist, and Women's Rights activist, was killed in Juarez City, Mexico after not returning home from a night out at a bar. As of January, 18 2022, there are still no suspects, nor is there an official account of what happened.

Background Cabanillas was a 26-year-old student at the Autonomous University of Juárez City (UACJ), where she studied fashion design and painting. and the anti-capitalist, feminist collective, known as Hijas de su Maquilera Madre, with whom she protested femicides in the city. Protests were held throughout Mexico in her name.