Mexico City, March 8.—Various groups mobilized in different states across the country, including San Luis Potosí, Chiapas, Michoacán, and Guerrero, to demand an end to femicides, gender-based violence, and inequality, today, which marks International Women's Day.
In San Luis Potosí, a call was launched for various activities on March 8, 2022. Among others, a protest march was held in front of the monument erected in memory of Karla Pontigo, located in the Plaza de Armas, in the Historic Center of this city of San Luis Potosí. Her murder on October 29, 2012, inside a nightclub remains unsolved. To this day, the case remains unsolved, although the Attorney General's Office recently brought her into custody.
The protesters stated that they will make statements in support of justice and demand punishment for those who attack women, in front of the Attorney General's Office headquarters in the state.
The Las Vulvasónicas Collective, a feminist batucada, will join the contingent to demand the rights of women workers.
Hundreds of women marched in the municipality of Chicomuselo, located in the state's mountains, to commemorate International Women's Day. They demanded that authorities at all three levels of government cease violence against them, help facilitate access to full justice, and definitively cancel mining concessions.
They called for the closure of bars and the cancellation of permits for the sale of alcoholic beverages in the communities and the municipal capital, respect for their human rights and those of migrants, and an end to human trafficking.
They denounced "the little or no attention paid to cases of violence against women: harassment, abuse, and sexual violence. The impunity that continues to increase human trafficking, especially of women and girls for sexual exploitation; domestic, psychological, and social violence that is carried out as normal and does not provoke outrage."
Belonging to the parish of San Pedro y San Pablo and grouped in the organization called Pueblo Creyente (Believing People) of the diocese of San Cristóbal, the protesters marched through the main streets of the municipal capital.
