With the mothers and relatives of victims of femicides and disappearances at the forefront, thousands of Mexican women took to the streets of Mexico City this Monday, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, to demand an end to sexist violence, which claims the life of a woman in the country every two and a half hours.
Among the women leading the march was Lidia Florencio, mother of Diana Velázquez Florencio, whose face was drawn on a blanket, and who was murdered in 2017 when she was 24 years old, in Chimalhuacán, in the State of Mexico.
“Diana, listen, your mother is in the fight,” Florencio shouted loudly, as he has done every November 25 for seven years.
The woman traveled to the country’s capital to reiterate the demand for justice, truth and memory for the feminicide of her daughter, who was previously missing, since only one of those responsible has been sentenced.
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“We made a long journey, but that is not an impediment to continue raising our voices because they continue to murder us, they continue to disappear us, they continue to violate us in every way,” he explained.
Likewise, he denounced that the authorities exercise institutional violence against the family, by denying them the rights that correspond to them as collateral victims of feminicide.
Around 4:00 p.m. local time, the protesters gathered at the Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan, on Reforma Avenue, to advance to the capital’s Zócalo.
Guadalupe Isabel Ramírez, mother of Azul de la Rosa, murdered on March 3 by her partner, claimed that the authorities have not prosecuted the person responsible for the crime of femicide, despite the fact that her daughter reported in 2023 the violence of which I was a victim.
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“My daughter reported because he hit her and they only detained him for about an hour and they kept my daughter until 11 at night so she could tell and tell what had happened,” he explained.
In addition, he recalled that the Public Prosecutor’s Office revictimized his daughter by asking her “what she had done for him to hit her.”
In Mexico, an average of 10 women are murdered every day, that is, one every two and a half hours, a constant trend since 2015, when the Government began a registry of complaints related to violence against women.
However, feminicide is the most extreme form of sexist violence that also manifests itself in physical, psychological, economic and even digital attacks.
Among other types of violence that were mentioned in the march, the digital violence recently legislated in Mexico through the Olimpia Law stood out.
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A group of young students from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) took advantage of the momentum of the march to announce what is emerging against the first sentence of digital violence with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) this Wednesday the 27th.
“We began a path that was not easy at all, dozens of us had to be sexually exploited by a classmate, we filed a complaint under the Olimpia law and we faced a unique legal process of its kind,” said one of the complainants.
“We are showing the entire world and the digital companies and the Justice systems that it is possible to act against digital violence (…) here because even if it is with Artificial Intelligence, digital violence is real,” he added.
Women raise their voices in Latin America
Thousands of women marched through the main cities of Latin America to reject femicides and demand that governments take more effective measures against gender violence.
The international organization Oxfam put its finger on the issue by pointing out in a report revealed in Guatemala that 80% of women and 70% of girls in the region have suffered some episode of gender violence.
With information from EFE
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