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 KELIN DILLON Accusations of sexual abuse and rape have been mounting against Mexican businessman and thinker Andrés Roemer Slomianski over the last month, resulting in the vandalism of Roemer’s Mexico City residence in the Roma neighborhood with the number “61,” — referring to the number of women who have come forward with allegations against him — during Monday, March
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By KELIN DILLON Following the events of the women’s march through the streets of Mexico City on Monday, March 8, protesting gender violence, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has been criticized by the feminist movement as being dismissive of its cause, said the female demonstrators were guilty of “hypocrisy and manipulation,” once again ignoring the larger issue
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By RICARDO CASTILLO For two consecutive weeks, throngs of angry masked women have staged virulent protests against the Mexico City police. These often violent demonstrations have taken city authorities — and especial women’s lib advocate Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum — by surprise given the unexpected spontaneity from which the protests sprouted. There are, however, motives. It all started with two incidents
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