Posted on 03/09/2020 12:54:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MEXICO CITY - Carolina Perez, 17, recently ran for her life.
The high school student who lives in Naucalpan, northwest of Mexico City, was walking when two men started chasing after her. She desperately sprinted and was able to reach the safety of her home.
"I'm not free and I'm not happy and I'm not safe on the streets," Perez told NBC News. She was one of an estimated 80,000 women who marched in the country's capital Sunday, International Women's Day, against the spate of femicides and gender-based violence that has rocked the country.
On Monday, women took the protests a step further, staying home and not going to work or school as part of the "Día sin Mujeres," or "Day without a Woman."
Lourdes Quiroga, 55, is a psychoanalyst who lives with her family in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City. She says she sees women patients on a daily basis who suffer violent abuse perpetrated by men.
"We're in danger, and we have to do something for our security and our lives," she said.
About 3,825 women died in Mexico in 2019 as a result of a violent incident — about 10 women a day — according to figures reported by The Associated Press. The number was 7 percent higher than in 2018, according to the data.
“In Mexico, it’s like we’re in a state of war; we’re in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed,” María de la Luz Estrada, coordinator of the National Citizen’s Observatory of Femicide, told AP.
Veronica Hernandez, 60, a university professor of indigenous studies, described the situation as "hell for women."
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Rape and drunk driving are the national pastimes of Mexico.
BUILD THE WALL FASTER.
Mr President, you hear that? Mexico needs their People Back, start the Deportations.
Land mines. Need lots.
But but but.. I thought the US was the worst country on the Planet for women?
That is why we have all these demonstrations, pink hits. #s and all of the “raising awareness” and “movements” about how the US is worse than every other country everywhere?+
She should get a handgun for protection.
Oh wait. Sorry. Mexico does not allow its citizens to protect themselves.
Too bad. Sucks for her.
Those women ought to be marching against their courts, which have eviscerated law enforcement, and their timid, powerless police. And how many of those women voted for soft-on-crime socialists?
I’m sure a few of those are government workers handing out water bottles.
It’s a terrible situation for sure. What the hell are supposed to do about it? Of course if ..... IF! ..... I said something like ‘Mexican men are animals’ I would be excoriated and labeled a GD racist bigot.
The MSM cares more about faggotry, gender bender crap and more than our borders.
Hmmmm, guess should be marching and screaming about Corona virus like everyone in the other Countrys are . Just saying?
And our filthy pink-hatted harridans think they have it so bad. Maybe they need a healthy dose of this Mexican “sexism”?
No need for any women , either in Mexico or in our country, to feel unsafe.
Defend yourselves!
in our USA its a clear right. USE IT!
REFUSE TO BE A VICTIM:
http://www.nrawomen.tv/refuse-to-be-a-victim
“And how many of those women voted for soft-on-crime socialists?”
They’re all socialists in Mehico.
I thought Hell is for Children, at least that’s what Pat Benatar sang.
So, don’t blame all the Mexican men. Say many of them or the gangsters or the fools among them. As long as their media keeps selling sex and violence. The risk of getting kidnapped or raped in Mexico is not fake news. Btw. Do US billionaires pimp sex and violence?
Maybe not all of them. But they all could stop it.
Well, Sartre said “hell is other people”, but maybe the people he was talking about were Mexican?
How many Latinas are murdered by husbands or boyfriends in the USA each year? That’s one of those “family values” they bring with them.
Mexico is such a great place that Democrats want to bring it here even faster.
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