They mount guard to preserve gazebo dedicated to women

Jessica Xanthomilla

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, October 9, 2022, p. 6

Mothers and sisters of victims of femicide, disappearance and political imprisonment, as well as feminist groups, demanded that the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, respect what they call the Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan, located in what was the Glorieta de Colón, which they took for a year as a space to recognize their efforts to have access to justice, as well as to eradicate femicide violence.

We have more than deserved it; we carry out a search for our disappeared and justice for the victims, which is up to them, the authoritiesthey held.

As a measure to prevent removal of the anti-monument that they placed in this space, as well as the memory garden and the denunciation clothesline, have been on guard in the vicinity since yesterday.

The executive director of Amnesty International Mexico, Edith Olivares, assured that the roundabout, located on Paseo de la Reforma, has been recovered by the citizens and is a symbol for the struggle. He called the head of government so that respect this recovered place and do not violate the women who will be taking care of it.

Mónica Borrego, mother of Yang, victim of femicide on September 21, 2014 in the country’s capital, explained that this space is to give us visibility because we really need a place where we can be present, where our struggle and our indignation is visible.

Yadira González, who is looking for her brother Juan, who disappeared on the border between Querétaro and Guanajuato in 2006, said that the square, where the capital administration will place a replica of the young indigenous ruler Amajac, It is a place of living memory for those who are not here and those who are missing us..

He indicated that the Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan could be dismantled on October 12, when the other one is inaugurated, and regretted that there is no dialogue with the capital’s government. However, he ruled we will defend it as much as possible.