Death Threats Against Women In Mexico
From the never-ending misogynist violence in Mexico file:
“Prominent women’s rights activists in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua have reported receiving a new round of threats. Members of Ciudad Juarez’s Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (May our Daughters Return Home), a group of relatives of murdered women, canceled their participation in a screening of the Hollywood movie “Bordertown” scheduled for their hometown because of death threats received by e-mail and on cell phones. “Now the threat is more real,” said Marisela Ortiz, Nuestras Hijas spokeswoman.
The death threats against women’s rights activists come amid an unprecedented wave of narco-violence in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua state.
More than 400 slayings attributed to organized crime have been reported this year alone, and fear of further carnage is gripping society. In recent days, e-mails and messages to cell phones in Ciudad Juarez have warned people to stay home during the coming weekend or at least exercise extreme caution because of an alleged plan to carry out spectacular executions on public thoroughfares.
The threats against women’s movement leaders likewise occur in a broader context of violent attacks and legal pressure against social activists of all stripes. Since March, Chihuahua farm movement leader Armando Villareal has been murdered, and labor and women’s rights activist Cipriana Jurado, has been arrested on federal charges stemming from a demonstration nearly three years ago. Arrest warrants are reportedly pending against dozens of other farmers involved in a payment strike against the Federal Electricity Commission.”
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