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Author Archives: Mariela Santos-Muñiz

Mariela Santos-Muñiz is a freelance writer, mostly writing about topics relating to Latinx communities, whose work has appeared in NBC Latino, Nylon, The Open Notebook, and more. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she works for the Center for Cooperative Media.

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Gun violence is playing a growing role in Puerto Rico’s femicide crisis

a latina woman smiles while facing the camera. she wears a white shirt with black pola dots, and her dark brown hair falls to her collarbones with a slight curl outwards at the ends. she wears dark rimmed glasses by Mariela Santos-Muñiz

In July 2023, a former boxer was convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend in Puerto Rico—a gruesome crime that drew attention to the island’s epidemic of gender-based violence. The boxer was found responsible for kidnapping leading to death and causing the death of an unborn child. According to court documents, the boxer drugged and beat […]