THE real challenge for women is for today, the day after the traditional feast of women, the M8 as they call in the whole of Latin America. It will be launched in Mexico: the 24 hours without the presence of women on the jobs, in public offices, in schools and universities, in stores and on the streets. Millions of women, 57 per cent of the population, for a day and concentrating on their things, their problems; islam the right to equality with men in wages, in guide and power, in order to simply walk around without being harassed, pursued by feedback-heavy, allusions sexist, looks heavy. Without considering the violence in the home, the physical and psychological torture, until the murders in Mexico are an emergency, 10 a day average.
“Latin America will all be feminist”, they shouted in chorus 125mila in Chile, 50 in Argentina, 30 thousand in Colombia, 10 in Peru, 20 in Ecuador, 10 in Venezuela, the other 10 thousand in Brazil. Rivers of women wrapped in scarves and green t-shirts, a symbol of the right to abortion, and purple, the traditional colour of the struggles feminists, including strong tensions with the police force mobilised in defence of the public buildings, often symbols of a power that is incapable of responding to the request of security and justice. But even under a heavy rain, in the midst of the tear gas, the flames of petrol bombs thrown into short and brief clashes. As ever this year, the entire continent has seen a mobilization so massive: yet another demonstration of the strength of a movement that has been shaken all the Countries of Latin America, forcing the governments of the right and left to make the issue of gender diversity at the centre of the political debate.
MEXICO
Together with Chile and Argentina driving mobilizations. The great Country of North America pays a high price in the feminicide. In the last three weeks there have been four fatal assault to an equal number of women from former companions or partners. The last, the fifth episode, has been involved in a seven years old girl kidnapped by a couple of fools who have taken to the exit of the school, held for a week somewhere, tortured, killed, and sealed in a garbage bag found in an alley on the outskirts of Mexico City. The theme is imposed with parades and protests in loads of frustration and anger. For the inertia of the police acting badly and delay, and against the president himself Obrador has tried to minimize the impressive series of attacks and attempted corruption saying that it was “excess”, in the numbers and in the reactions. Today is replication. But with one strike, if you want to call it that, all female. A Mexico without the women.
CHILE
The protest was against the government of Sebastián Piñera . Yet another of a riot that shocked the Country held in check by five months. The heart of the great procession was the staging of collective representation “A violador en tu camino”, a song that denounces the sexual violence that is created by the collective Las Tesis.
