Mexico commemorates its most tense International Women's Day.
Hundreds of women have marched to the Zócalo in Mexico City and have torn down part of the fence that surrounded the National Palace, headquarters of the Executive and official residence of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the target of criticism for his controversial attitude towards the feminist movement.
Police have responded with tear gas.
The reasons for the exhaustion are clear: 68% of the Mexican population considers that gender violence has increased notably this last year and a similar percentage (62%) believe that the attitude of President López Obrador towards feminist movements is not being the appropriate one, according to a telephone survey carried out on the 4th and 5th of this month by the company Simo (Systems of Intelligence in Markets and Opinion) for EL PAÍS.
One year after the massive 2020 march and the historic national women's strike, the movement arrives at 8-M even more outraged by scandals such as that of the aspiring governor of Guerrero, Félix Salgado Macedonio, from Morena, accused of two rapes and whom López Obrador has offered him his unconditional support.
In the country where 10 women are murdered a day and which has more than 99% impunity for crimes of sexual violence, thousands of women clamor this Monday to say enough.
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