Mexico’s General Law to Prevent, Investigate, Sanction and Repair the Damage for the Crime of Femicide seeks to strengthen the capacity of the State to protect, act promptly, investigate, as well as guarantee truth, justice and reparation for victims.
Morelos Autonomous University students know that if they don’t protest, the cycle of femicides against young women, whether university students or not, will continue.
The anti-monument, created as a symbol of the resilience of thousands of women with missing relatives and to remember victims of femicide, replaced a statue of Christopher Columbus in 2021.
Helena Monzón, the victim’s sister and lawyer, celebrated the ruling against López Zavala, found responsible as the mastermind, along with perpetrators Silvestre Vargas Ruiz and Jair Mauricio Domínguez, the politician’s nephew.
A representative from Observatoria Todas MX Sonora emphasized that Sonora had been under a Gender Violence Alert for almost four years, and far from decreasing, femicides actually increased.