By MEREL HAENEN Under the cold but stately gaze of the capital’s most iconic monument — the perched, golden-winged Angel of Independence on Mexico City’s main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma — thousands of women gathered on Thursday, Nov. 25, to march in protest to femicide and other gender-based violence. The protestors, who occasionally scuffled with police as they marched
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the first five months of 2021, femicides in Mexico increased by a whopping 7.1 percent compared to the same period in 2020, Secretary of Public Security Rosa Icela Rodríguez said Monday, June 28. Speaking during the daily press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace, Rodríguez said that
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Nearly one in three Mexicans believe that female victims of gender-based violence somehow provoked and are responsible for the situation that led to their attacks, according to a study by the University of the Valley of Mexico’s (UVM) Center for Public Opinion. The study, which was the result of interviews conducted last February with adult members of
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