Fed up with impunity, Mexican women take control of government buildings and are violently evicted

MEXICO CITY.- It began with a desperate action by a mother who no longer knew what recourse to appeal to in order for them to listen to her and decided to tie herself to a chair of the organization that allegedly defends human rights in Mexico.

That action has become a movement.

Since Thursday night, groups and activists have done like Marcela Alemán, whose 5-year-old daughter was subjected to sexual abuse at her school.

When she reported, Aleman told Noticias Telemundo, the minor was mistreated by the authorities, who questioned her alone for hours before releasing the accused.

Last week, Alemán and other women, many of them mothers of women who were murdered, of missing persons or of girls who were violated, took control of the headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in Mexico City to demand help for their cases, which are stuck for a long time or have not even been well investigated.

Women's groups have

 - until now, in Veracruz, Puebla, Tabasco and Aguascalientes - to demand concrete actions.

In some places, they have lined the exterior walls of the offices with 

In Mexico, most crimes are not even reported and, of those that are registered, more than 90% are not punished.

, 99.7% of the reports do not result in arrests or convictions.

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On average, 

.

77% of women say they suffer often from insecurity and harassment in the streets, and even during confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic there have been increases in violence against women.

The shots of the offices of human rights commissions, autonomous bodies that in theory are designed to represent and support crime victims, have grown in the last hours of this Friday, also in repudiation

in Ecatepec at

.

The occupation actions began a week ago with the seizure of the offices of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in Mexico City.

The activists in Ecatepec, which is one of the places with the worst rates of violence against women in the entire country, denounce that before being taken to the prosecution on charges of "illegal occupation" they were beaten, even though they were together with their children since

“They took our cell phones

said about their arrest in a video recorded after public anger led to their release.

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They also denounce that the public servants threatened them with shouts such as: "Now yes, daughters of your whore, they were worth it."

The beatings of the officers were recorded by several of the activists.

During the early morning, relatives who went to the Prosecutor's Office in Atizapán to find out what happened to them were even sprayed with fire extinguishers, according to videos.

 Such violence occurred in the State of Mexico despite the fact that there are even

a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights demanded changes to be implemented two years ago from the serious case. sexual torture of women who demonstrated in the town of Atenco.

As part of the takeover of the CNDH in the capital, the women and girls renamed it "house of refuge" and have made graffiti with slogans of justice - among them "We do not forgive nor forget" - painted over pictures of national heroes.

Until now,

, but among his statements he indicated that he regrets that the protesters have painted the painting of the revolutionary Francisco I. Madero.

In response, activists criticized him for lamenting more what happened to a painting than for lamenting the violence experienced by thousands of women in the country.

The women renamed the CNDH offices "Ni Una Más Refuge House" and painted pictures of Mexican figures such as José María Morelos (left), Benito Juárez (center) and Francisco I. Madero (right) .EFE

López Obrador has repeatedly said that his government does a lot for women, without clarifying what it is doing.

Faced with express questions, he has not been able to name a single program designed to protect them from violence.

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In the middle of the year, it was reported that

, and once López Obrador said that most of the Mexican women who call 911 to ask for help for domestic abuse make the call in false.

Data from your own government shows that these calls are legitimate.

Among the changes made by the women to Madero's painting are some flowers painted by a girl who was sexually abused a few months ago.

The artist of the painting, Juan Manuel Núñez, took a different position from that of the president: he gave the painting to the girl, according to her mother told the media.