Murdered live on TikTok - Mexico’s femicide crisis
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The world was shocked when a gunman shot and killed Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez while she livestreamed herself at a beauty salon. President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government says it will investigate the murder as a possible case of femicide. Will it mark a turning point for a nation that has long struggled with staggering levels of gender-based violence?
In this episode:
- Julia Galiano-Rios (@juliagaliano), journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, Haleema Shah, and Chloe K. Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Mariana Navarrete, Khaled Soltan, Amy Walters, Kisaa Zehra, Remas Alhawari, and our host, Manuel Rápalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, murder live streamed on TikTok. |
| 0:15.0 | Shock and heartbreak on social media tonight after a popular 23-year-old TikToker from Mexico was shot and killed while live streaming. |
| 0:23.8 | Valeria Marquez could be seen collapsing on camera. |
| 0:27.6 | The video spread fast, and now it's being investigated as femicide, highlighting a reality women in Latin America have lived with for years. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm Manuel Rappalo, and this is The Take. |
| 0:48.4 | My name is Julia Galliano. I am a freelance journalist based in Mexico City and often collaborator with Al Jazeera English. |
| 0:56.8 | Julia, welcome back to the take. |
| 0:58.9 | Social media has been flooded recently with a disturbing video of a Mexican influencer, Valeria Marquez, |
| 1:05.8 | who was shot dead while doing a live stream on TikTok from the beauty salon where she worked at in |
| 1:13.9 | Halisco, Mexico. What more can you tell us about this case? And why did it strike such a nerve? |
| 1:22.7 | Well, I mean, I think that the reason why it's become viral and, you know, it's because of how it |
| 1:27.2 | happened. You know, it's very Hollywood-esque in some become viral and, you know, it's because of how it happened. |
| 1:27.7 | You know, it's very Hollywood-esque in some way. |
| 1:30.2 | Like, you know, here's this woman talking to the camera and live on, you know, she has something like 100,000 followers. |
| 1:37.1 | And we hear, you know, somebody coming into her salon and asking if it was her. |
| 1:44.2 | Is it valiant? |
| 1:45.1 | She responds, yes, mutes the camera, presumably thinking she's going to have a conversation with |
| 1:50.3 | this person. |
| 1:51.2 | And then the next thing we see is her kind of clutching her stomach after she's been shot. |
| 1:56.7 | I think it's the reason why it's blown up in the way that it has. |
| 2:00.1 | It's kind of like the ultimate thing that you can see, you know, |
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