(2 Nov 2020) Mothers of murdered women and feminist campaigners demonstrated on Sunday in Mexico City against femicide and violence against women.
Araceli Osorio, one of the partaking mothers, said they were initially planning on canceling the protest due to the coronavirus pandemic, but changed their mind on seeing a recent increase in domestic violence due to public health measures.
Osorio's daugher Lesvy Berlin was murdered in 2017 in the Mexican capital.
The demonstrators were inspired by Chilean feminist collective La Tesis' protests through performance, singing a rendition of Mexican folk song La Llorona with anti-femicide lyrics.
"This reminds me of my daughter's murder," said Norma Andrade, whose daughter Lilia Aljandra Garcia was murdered in 2001.
"I remember everything I experienced when I was looking for her, it's an open wound."
On average, 10 women are murdered each day in Mexico, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world to be female.
The threat of violence is compounded by a lack of consequences for the perpetrators: fewer than one in 10 murders are solved in Mexico.
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