{"id":117229,"date":"2021-04-04T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117229"},"modified":"2021-04-04T17:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:40:25","slug":"mexico-women-rights-activists-protest-over-femicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117229","title":{"rendered":"Mexico: Women rights activists protest over femicides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Mexico-Women-Rights-Activists-Protest-Over-Femicides--20210403-0001.html#\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/__export\/1617452511236\/sites\/telesur\/img\/2021\/04\/03\/1.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" alt=\"Activists demonstrate in front of the National Palace, Mexico City, April 2, 2021.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, April 4 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8212; Women rights activists took to the streets in Mexico City to protest recent femicides in the State of Quintana Roo and the murder of Salvadorean migrant Victoria Salazar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chanting &#8220;Victoria did not die, the police killed her!&#8221; and &#8220;My friends take care of me, not the police&#8221;, activists marched from the Revolution Monument to the &#8220;Paseo de la Reforma&#8221; street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NGO Marabunta Humanitarian Brigade accompanied the protest to serve as an intermediate between demonstrators and police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 27, Tulum city police officers caused the death of 36-year-old Salazar after pinning her to the ground. This same day, 29-year-old Karla &#8216;M&#8217; was murder in Holbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salazar&#8217;s death sparked rejection from human rights organizations and groups that accused Mexican security forces of racism and misogyny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Mexico reported 940 femicides, two less than in 2019. Juarez, Tijuana, Baja California, Monterrey, and Nuevo Leon are the municipality with the highest tallies of these murders.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are here to show solidarity with the girls, to make ourselves visible&#8230;We have to be heard in one way or another. Things cannot keep going on like this,&#8221; a protester said.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-TELESUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, April 4 (NNN-TELESUR) &#8212; Women rights activists took to the streets in Mexico City to protest recent femicides in the State of Quintana Roo and the murder of Salvadorean migrant Victoria Salazar. Chanting &#8220;Victoria did not die, the police killed her!&#8221; and &#8220;My friends take care of me, not the police&#8221;, activists marched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}