A University of British Columbia student who once lived in Montreal was found stabbed and strangled with her hands tied behind her back near a Mexican beach, in a slaying local news media say may be linked to organized crime.
Ximena Osegueda, 39, a Mexican national who had become a Canadian citizen, was working on her doctorate in Hispanic studies in the town of Huatulco, about 500 kilometres southeast of Mexico City, when she went missing on Dec. 13.
Ximena was a wonderful person, people. A scholar, a thinker, a fighter. She did her BA in Hispanic Studies at Concordia University in Montreal and her MA at McGill University.
This is a horrible tragedy.
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I’m so sorry to hear that, Clarissa. What a horrible thing to happen.
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Thank you, Spanish Prof. She was only 38 years old.
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very unfortunate that an academic of all people would be the victim of mafia gangs.
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And a very vibrant, kind, beautiful person, too.
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I’m so sorry Clarissa. How abhorrent. I wish there was more I could say or do.
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Thank you, Jaime. I still can’t believe this. She was there and now she isn’t.
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Sorry to hear that. Never really to deal with something like that so far in my life.
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What a revolting thing to happen. I’m so sorry.
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I’m so sorry Clarissa. My condolences to her family and loved ones.
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Thank you! I barely managed to get through my classes today because it’s something one can’t absorb for a while.
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How shocking, such brutality! I am so sorry and angered. Condolences to her family and friends.
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I am so sorry. It is such a tragedy when someone dies so young. And so hard to accept that the universe could be such a cruel place to let something like that happen.
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Thank you, everybody, for the kind words.
What a tragedy.
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Sorry to hear it. I never know what to say.
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I don’t know what to say either, actually.
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How awful!
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