MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government has walled off the presidential palace with a metallic barrier ahead of a planned women's march on Monday to protest rampant violence against women and the president's support for a gubernatorial candidate accused of rape.
"It is outrageous, few people support us in the cry for justice," said Becky Bios, who survived an attempted femicide -- a term for gender-driven killing -- in 2015 and will participate in the march. "The fact that they're barricading the city shows they're aware that women have been listening to them, we have been watching them and apparently now they're the ones who are scared," said Arussi Unda, spokeswoman for the feminist collective Las Brujas del Mar, or Witches of the Sea.Arussi said violence against women goes unpunished too often, leading to a pattern of re-victimization.
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