The Independent
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9th March 2020
Opinion: Mexico's AMLO seems incapable of tackling record rates of femicide
A sea of purple and black swayed in unison with the Jacaranda trees lining Mexico City’s streets yesterday as over 80,000 women descended upon the capital to protest the country’s femicide epidemic. And across the nation, women of all ages and backgrounds joined local marches to protest an increasing outrage at the gender-based violence epidemic and the lack of an adequate response on behalf of the government.
Yesterday, women (and some men) came out in the hundreds of thousands to call out the