Tear gas, fences and repression: the government’s response to the International Women’s Day March.

Original article, 08/03/21:
www.laizquierdadiario.mx/Gases-lacrimogenos-vallas-y-represion-la-respuesta-del-gobierno-ante-marcha-del-8M

AMLO [Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico], and Claudia Sheinbaum, the head of the Mexico City government, against women who protest patriarchal violence.
 
While the murders of 967 women were recorded in this country (ten are reported per day), 16,545 cases of rape and more than 260,000 calls to the emergency services relating to violence against women, the federal and capital governments chose to focus on the repression of the IWD demonstrations, in which tens of thousands of working women and young women took to the streets, fed up with patriarchal and work-based violence.
 
Coloured pepper spray, the arbitrary arrest of four photojournalists - Graciela López from the agency Cuartoscuro, Sashenka Gutiérrez from EFE Noticias, Gabriela Esquivel from Diario 24 horas and Leslie Pérez from El Heraldo de México - police and military personnel on the roof of the Palacio Nacional with anti-drone rifles. Outrageous governmental oppression of women.
 
There is an urgent need for a wide, national movement against patriarchal and state violence, with the participation of workers, young people and social and political organisations independent of the government and the Right.

Translated by Molly Shevlin