Marcela Lagarde: “Impunity is the basis of feminicide” The Mexican anthropologist and politician has spent decades explaining the responsibility of institutions in sexist violence. “The State, by not acting, acts.

By leaving victims behind, you are condemning them to terrible things,” she says. Lagarde is one of the most important feminists of recent decades. She has written, without metaphors, part of the history of her country: social, institutional and legal.