(Bloomberg) -- Dozens of angry women tried to interrupt President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s press conference last month, shouting “not one more, not one more!” Failing to get past his security brigade and into the National Palace, they spent hours outside, chanting and spray-painting messages -- “femicide state” and “they’re killing us” -- on the 500-year-old building’s walls.
Finally, a select group was invited in to meet with one of the president’s top advisers, Leticia Ramirez Amaya, who runs the Office of Citizen Attention.
She listened politely to their concerns -- and, they said, told them she had no power to do anything about the scourge of violence against women in Mexico. ...
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/mexican-women-storm-the-streets-as-murder-toll-spikes
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