Hundreds of women, adolescents and girlstogether with organizations and activists, They demonstrated today, Saturday (10/5/2024) in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casasin the state of Chiapas, southeast of Mexico, to demand that the new Government of Mexico, which since last October 1 has been headed by the president Claudia Sheinbaumthe end of violence and inequality.
Magdalena Maganaa 14-year-old adolescent from the Tzotzil ethnic group, said that “we walk to share our concerns as girls and adolescents, about school violence, violations of our rights, inequality, domestic abuse, which They force us to get married at a young agereasons why we cannot fulfill our rights, our dreams.”
With a view to International Day of the Girlwhich will be held on Friday October 11indigenous and rural minors made visible the increase in violence and inequality that they experience in their communities in Chiapasa state that in recent months has suffered conflicts and the scourge of racketeering.
The protesters gathered in the north of the city and walked to the main park while showing posters and cardboard silhouettes of girls and women with messages such as “All rights for girls, boys and adolescents” and “Girls fighting, the world transforming.” ”.
They update the song “Arroz con leche, I want to get married”
Dressed in white blouses and purple badges, the girls, teenagers, women and activists, making their way among the tourists and residents, sang: “Rice pudding, I want to find a partner who wants to dream, who believes in herself and goes out to fight to conquer your dreams of freedom! Brave, not submissive, happy and strong and I want to be me!”
This is how they alluded to the song “Rice pudding I want to get married with a young lady from San Nicolás, who knows how to sew, who knows how to embroider, who knows how to open the door to go play…”
March and festival
At the end of the march, the women carried out cultural and artistic activities where they expressed youthful thoughts and also sang rap and danced.
In Mexico, girls suffer twice as many crimes as boys. Statistics reveal that for every adolescent male sexually abused, between 12 and 13 years old, there are eight women of the same age who are victims of abuse, according to data from organizations.
Precisely, the organization Melel Xojobal He pointed out that more than one million girls and adolescents live in the state of Chiapas and of them 300,000 speak an indigenous language.
Six problems of the minors in Chiapas
Between the problems faced by minors are malnutritionthird cause of death in girls between five and 11 years of age, while the second is suicide in adolescent women.
Additionally, just over 65,000 teenagersfrom 12 to 14 years old, are married or live as a couple and, according to records, Every month about 250 teenagers between 12 and 14 years old get pregnant.
A fifth problem is the disappearances. Since 2020, some 2,000 girls and adolescents have already disappeared in Chiapas. The greatest danger is for minors between 12 and 17 years old.
The records also show that between 2012 and 2024 at least 15 girls and adolescents were victims of feminicide in San Cristóbal de las Casas. So far in 2024 there have already been seven murders with firearms.
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