22 the assessment that [she] made in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, indicating the main obstacles that the public administration of Ciudad Juárez [presumably] faces as a result of the [supposed] absence of public policies with a gender perspective; the [alleged] impact of the [alleged] absence of national public policies with a gender perspective; the principal errors made on gender issues by state and national authorities, [and] the social, political and economic context of violence against women that Ciudad Juárez experiences.” q) Julia Monárrez Fragoso. “[E]xpert in gender-based violence […] who has studied the context of gender violence in Ciudad Juárez for many years.” Expert witness proposed by the representatives. She testified, inter alia, about “the [supposed] femicides in Ciudad Juárez and, specially, about the [alleged] systematic pattern of femicide involving sexual abuse; the [alleged] incompetence of the authorities when investigating cases with a similar pattern of violence; the [alleged] lack of access to information or to clear systematized information, which prevents carrying out research based on official data; the way the State has handled providing society with information on the number of women murdered [and] the number of women who have disappeared; the [alleged] playing down of the situation by the authorities in the face of the context of violence against women; the role of government and non-governmental agencies in providing services to the next of kin of the women who have disappeared or who have not been identified; the role of the people of Ciudad Juárez faced with the context of violence against women; the political and social agents who [supposedly] permitted the context of violence against women; [and] the reaction of the private sector, the media, the Church and other sectors of society to the [alleged] femicides.” r) Mara Galindo López. Witness proposed by the State. She testified, inter alia, about “[t]he functions of the agency [that provides services to victims attached to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General for the Northern District of the state of Chihuahua]; [t]he [alleged] pecuniary support provided to the next of kin of Claudia Ivette González, Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez and Esmeralda Herrera Monreal; and [t]he [supposed] non-pecuniary services provided to the next of kin of Claudia Ivette González, Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez and Esmeralda Herrera Monreal.” s) Flor Rocío Murguía González. Witness proposed by the State. She testified, inter alia, about “[t]he development, by the Public Prosecutor´s Office, of the investigations in relation to the deaths of Claudia Ivette González, Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez and Esmeralda Herrera Monreal, and [t]he directives concerning the investigation issued by the Office [of the Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of the Murders of Women in Juárez,] under her responsibility.” t) Eberth Castañón Torres. Witness proposed by the State. He testified, inter alia, about “[t]he expert appraisals made in connection with the investigations into the deaths of Claudia Ivette González, Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez and Esmeralda Herrera Monreal”; and the “[alleged] progress and results obtained by forensic genetics in the State of Chihuahua, especially in Ciudad Juárez, owing to the implementation of the new criminal justice system and improvements in forensics.”