Elizabeth Machuca Campos holds the portrait of her sister Eugenia Machuca Campos amid women's red shoes placed in the Zocalo by people protesting violence against women in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. According to Elizabeth, her sister's ex-boyfriend is serving time in jail for her Oct. 2017 murder in the State of Mexico.
The performance was the latest in a string of public demonstrations in recent months over violence against women, including angry anti-rape protests in which demonstrators tossed glitter and defaced monuments; thousands of women in blindfolds chanting the feminist anthem “A Rapist in Your Path,” a viral phenomenon across the Americas and around the world; and more low-key marches and even knit-ins.
But for those at Saturday’s protest, little to nothing has been seen as far as results. There were 3,662 femicides, or gender-related killings of women, in 2018, before López Obrador took office, and the rate continued apace in 2019 though there are not yet final figures for the year. “Those pairs of shoes are missing their owners,” she said, fighting back tears, “the women who have been torn from us.”
Violence against women is a problem that well predates the current government. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Ciudad Juarez was notorious for the unpunished killings and disappearances of hundreds of women and girls. Today activists often point to the State of Mexico, the country’s most populous, as a flashpoint for femicides.
So unspeakably horrible!
How are they able to getaway with doing this?
Did they celebrate with a pizza party?
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