Page Seven / La Paz
Relatives of victims of femicide, activists and members of the Cochabamba Network Against Violence joined yesterday, on International Women’s Day, the march through the city to Calle 25 de Mayo and Jordán, to participate in a symbolic act in front of the Femicide Wall.
Tears of pain and nostalgia rolled down the cheeks of several mothers, when the Catholic father Rodolfo asked God that he comfort their hearts, that his love heal the pain and that all violence disappears in the country, reads a press release.
The priest blessed the Femicide Wall, where the names of so many murdered women were written, and prayed for justice to act transparently.
United, the women performed the Song Without Fear, with such force, authority and feeling, that those who walked through the center slowed down and looked very moved.
Then, relatives of the victims of femicide and activists wrote phrases of support, prevention and denunciation on the wall to express their thoughts and reflections.
The urban artist Lucía Urzagasti was in charge of creating the central figure of the Femicide Wall. In this work, she represents Bolivian women, different from each other, but unique and valuable. “They are women of different socioeconomic conditions, of different ethnic groups, of diverse cultural consumption. There is a cholita, a Christian woman, an Afro woman, a queer woman, a blue-collar worker,” she reads in a press release.
In the work there are also a boy and a girl who represent a generation that is being affected by femicide.
