In view of the commemoration of International Women’s Day This March 8, feminist groups flew over iconic points of the CDMX with a blimp in protest against the femicides in the country.
With the phrases “10 daily femicides” and “none in oblivion” to the sides, the 50-meter zeppelin flew over the Fuente de la Diana the Huntressthe Angel of Independencethe Senate of the Republicthe Monument to the Revolution and the Palace of Fine Arts to make visible the cases and victims of violence and feminicide that have occurred for several years in Mexico.
“We protest with pain in the sky against the daily murders of women, for the simple fact of being women, and we do it from the heights to be closer to our sisters,” the feminist groups, who preferred to remain, said in a statement. in anonymity.
Likewise, they highlighted that through the flight of the zeppelin they publicly express their fed up with impunity, hours before the march of the 8Min addition to seeking to “open a conversation so that as a society we question gender-based violence and we urge the authorities, once again, to listen to us.”
“We fly because the sky has no owner or government. We fly because in the sky there are no geographical borders, just as there are no time borders or borders between life and death. We fly because we are all in the heights”, they highlighted.
While they stressed, in the face of the 8M marches, that the airship overflight is in response to the fact that “they tell us that you can’t paint, that you can’t break or burn things: then we also go up. We go up to heaven because in heaven there are no limits and because there we are all”.
The numbers of femicides
Similarly, feminists stressed that between March 2021 and 2022, around 10 femicides newspapers, while highlighting that they will continue to protest against the “Feminicidal Mexico in which we live” until there are concrete actions by the authorities, demanding justice for the families of the victims.
“We are not figures or data, we are complete universes, we are stories, we are loves, we are heartbreaks, we are families, we are complexity and we are also with our differences”, they indicated.
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Meanwhile, the country adds almost 25 thousand missing or unaccounted for women, with more than a thousand officially recognized femicides during 2021, 2.66 percent more cases compared to 2020.
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