San Miguel de Allende joined the National Mourning movement for the lives of girls and women

Published May 21st, 2022

This Wednesday, feminist collectives from all over Mexico held a “National Mourning” for the lives of girls and women, in response to the disappearances and murders of girls and women in the country, and called for the issue to be declared a National Alert.

At 5:00 p.m., dressed in black, women of all ages gathered in the main squares or in front of the government palaces of their cities, demanding that the authorities prioritize the issue of security for women in their agenda.

In Veracruz, they protested the femicide of “Montserrat Bendimes”, who was murdered 12 months ago by her ex-boyfriend “Marlon”, who is a fugitive from justice.

In Xalapa, they put on a performance in which they simulated having been murdered and also remembered the victims, in some cases telling how the machista attack that has taken the lives of many women has been carried out.

In Yucatan, they gathered at the monument to the homeland, a day on which a man was sentenced to trial, responsible for what would be the second femicide of the year in the state.

Feminist collectives are also demonstrated in Mexico City’s Zócalo.

San Miguel de Allende also joined the National Mourning for the lives of women, they gathered at the Main Garden where in different places of the garden, they placed several crosses with the names of women who are missing in Guanajuato since 2020 or who were murdered.

Among these names was that of “Pilar”, the young woman who was murdered in January 2020 by her boyfriend, in this city.

The women circled the square, carrying a coffin that was painted pink, symbolizing a dead woman in it.