The brutal murder of a 7-year-old girl in a neighborhood in the south of the Mexican capital has confronted the Government of Mexico to take urgent measures on the violence in the country. The body of Fatima Cecilia Aldriguett Antón was found this weekend, after six days disappeared, with signs of torture, thrown in trash bags in the street. And it has become the last symbol of indignation of a country that every day breaks all the records of the tragedy. In Mexico, 10 women die a day and in total, more than 90 homicides in 24 hours. President López Obrador on Monday has blamed what happened to individualistic morals and conservative thinking. A response that has irritated even more a country that lives in an extreme situation.
The last time Fatima was seen alive, she left school. On February 11, his family filed a complaint for disappearance. And less than a week later, the country observes what it had already read or seen in the news before: the body of the child, tortured, naked and lying in the street. The case of Fatima is not the only one in these years in which feminicides have multiplied: in 2018, 3,752 women and 1,463 minors were murdered, according to figures from the Network for Children's Rights (REDIM). "Fatima was not killed by neoliberalism," many respond by Twitter to the president on Monday.
Last week, another feminicide outraged the country. Ingrid Escamilla, 25. His partner confessed, in a brutal video leaked by the authorities, the fury with which he had ended his life. The photos of the young woman's body appeared on the pages of the local media. And hundreds of women demonstrated for the dignity of one more victim of sexist violence in a historic protest.
The cases of murdered women are crowded at the doors of government offices without urgent measures being announced. April Pérez Sagaón was murdered on November 25 after having denounced that her then husband, Juan Carlos García, former director of Amazon in Mexico, had tried to kill her. The day he had gone to the capital to continue with the proceedings of the lawsuit, while traveling in a car with his children, a man shot him in the head and neck. Sagaón was one of the few women who dared to denounce in this country, only one in nine. Three months after his murder, there is still no detainee.
Demonstrations against sexist violence have also multiplied. And the responses of the president of Mexico have tried to relate the crisis of violence that plagues the country with a campaign to discredit his Government. This Monday, in his morning press conference, López Obrador faced the feminist movement, according to what he had read on social networks, with his performance: "There is a conservative thought. Feminism yes, transformation no. Or feminism is better than transformation "No, it is part of the same thing. It is seeing the tree and not seeing the forest. We are living a stellar moment in the public life of our country, a stellar moment is taking place. When had corruption been confronted in this way?" ".
The head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, commented on Monday through her Twitter account that it is "outrageous, aberrant, painful for someone to hurt a girl; this crime will not go unpunished." But in Mexico at least eight out of 10 crimes do not receive a conviction.