Paloma Ledezma went missing on a Saturday. She left her home in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua at 3:15 p.m. on March 2, 2002, to go to a weekend class downtown—a computer class she took between her long weekly shifts at a maquiladora. Her mother, Norma, expected her 16-year-old daughter home no later than 9 p.m., but Paloma never returned. “She didn’t come home,” Paloma later said in a testimony. “She never came home.” Twenty-seven days after Paloma’s disappearance, her body was found near the Chihuahua-Ciudad Aldama highway with signs of sexual violence.
Even though Norma Ledezma lost her daughter, she refused to let her death become another statistic. Instead, she is a leader of the fight against femicides in both her home state of Chihuahua and across the country. With other activists, she founded the organization Justice for Our Daughters and worked on cases of women and girls who have either disappeared or been killed in Chihuahua. She did all of this despite multiple threats of violence.
“I see my daughter in each of them. I think she would also get up and scream for other women,” says Ledezma shedding happy tears. “These... young women with awareness, with knowledge, with commitment and even with the risks. We as families, or people who have lived through this situation, endorse these women.
Carrying signs of “Ni una menos” and chanting the Latin American battle cry “Se va a caer, se va a caer, el patriarcado se va a caer” , protestors across the nation raised their fists against two cases of police abuse.
“The north [of Mexico] is very machista, the culture is still retrograde and we didn’t realize we were part of this. It cannot be generalized because there are many compañeras who have spent years on this fight and many others who have just joined in the past years,” says a spokesperson for Rodada Feminista, one of the collectives that organized the rally in the northern city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, one of Mexico’s most conservative states.
“To the extent that the media opens their perspective on why things happen, and begin to give in-depth coverage of the situation that women live, we are sure that the way in which the problem is perceived at the level of society will also be modified,” explains a spokesperson of Mujeres+Mujeres.
The call for decentralization became louder on August 30 when a protest was held in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City; once considered the country’s femicide capital, the city still has the highest rates of femicides in the country. The organization Mujeres Ecatepenses por los Derechos Humanos, along with other groups, marched through the streets of Ecatepec to bring attention to the violence against women and demand the enforcement of state and federal laws protecting women.
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