In A Country Called Mexico...
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| Cintia Bolio, 2015. Every week 49 women and girls are victims of feminicidio Never One less: #niunamenos |
He has been telling his tale year after year and he is so good at what he does that his numbers go up and up.
Every day nine women or girls are murdered in Mexico. Nine and counting in that the precise number is not known. The criminal code femicidio is not in use everywhere, and so in some states a woman murdered may be classified as a homicide, suicide or accidental.
2019 was the most lethal yet for women and girls in Mexico, according to the report Mexico: When Words Are Not Enough that was published by Amnesty International marking the first year of the new presidency.
Femicidio defines the act of murder. Feminicidio includes the cultural structure for the killing to take place. Take The Grim Reaper about to sweep up justice in his robes. He is a rodent eating away at society, treating the female body as garbage. He so energized that he can openly challenge the judicial system on who is in power. There is no protection, no action, not even interest taken in punishing the murder of a woman. The passivity of the state tells her murderer that it is not a crime.
The passivity emboldens crime. A higher percentage of the killings take place in public space with each year. Worship is taking place at the altar of impunity.
Justice dies with every woman and girl murdered whose killer goes unpunished.
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| Cintia Bolio, Altar of Impunity, 2008. |
The cartoons shown are courtesy of Cintia Bolio and must not be reproduced without her permission.
