Several hundred feminist activists warm up with chants next to a monument to murdered Mexican women before filling a street in the capital and dousing female police officers with red paint.
Women protest against the latest murder of two women, in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. During the past couple of weeks two women activists, attorney Yunuen Lopez Sanchez and Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre where both murdered by unknown assailants.
Now, the feminists themselves feel like targets after two of their fellow activists were murdered this month in different parts of the country. Ornelas thinks the shooting death last week of women’s rights activist Isabel Cabanillas in Ciudad Juarez, a city just south of El Paso, Texas, was meant as a message to the women who are fighting for greater safety.
In August, female protesters shocked Mexico by trashing a bus station, police precinct and spray-painting messages like “rape state” onto the base of the Angel of Independence, a major monument in the capital topped by a female angel. On Saturday the masked protesters poured red paint onto a statue of a man riding a pegasus, threw a flaming projectile at a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus and tied a green bandanna -a symbol of abortion rights- around the ankle of a statue of French chemist Louis Pasteur.
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