The nomination of Jesusa Rodríguez by President Antonio Manuel López Obrador as Mexico’s ambassador to Panama has caused a stir for a few days.
The Panamanian Alliance for Life and Family, through a note signed by its vice president, Rupert Neblett, expressed rejection of the senator, for “representing everything contrary to the values on which our nation was founded.” “We will not accept that everything that is in the way is sent to our country,” the group stressed.
Samirah Armengol, from the International Coalition of Women and Families (Cimuf), referred to this issue and the decline of Pedro Salmerón, who had been appointed before Jesusa to hold the position on home soil.
In Armengol’s opinion, the subject of Senator Rodríguez has evidenced what has always been discussed: “the level of discrimination, homophobia and disconnection that exists in our society with respect to the sensitivity that we can have in the face of violence against women ”.
She stated that when Salmerón was nominated, the feminists raised their voices saying: “we don’t want this person who has been accused of sexual harassment and everywhere it came out ‘the feminists don’t want Salmerón’, while when they nominated Jesusa, they immediately said : “Panamanian society does not want Jesusa”.
“When Salmerón is nominated, they talk about the historian, when Jesusa is nominated, then they talk about the lesbian. When we talk about men in politics we never get into their bed”, he remarked.
