Mexico City.-Artists spread a message that criticizes president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s statements about femicides. The renowned Mexican soprano María Katzarava reproduced the claim on her Twitter account.
The text, written by researcher and producer Enid Negrete on her personal Facebook account, the Mandatario is blamed for its lack of action against gender-based violence.” Do you have any idea of the shame of others that we mexicans who live in Europe experience when their “statements” about femicides and their answers to the journalists’ questions on this subject in the news come out here? Do you have a remote idea what’s going to happen if this goes on like this? Are you a human being? How can you see these murders, kidnappings, rapes and so on?” she claims in performing arts.
They’re killing us and harassing us and assaulting us for being born in Mexico and being women.
Ten women a day. Ten, 3650 a year, does that seem normal to you? A country that kills its women and treats its artists as beggars is a country of shame. — Maria Katzarava (@maria_katzarava)
February 15, 2020
“How is it possible that a human rights problem such as femicide, which affects most Mexicans, will receive the lukewarm and faltering responses it has given?” The producer and stage director of theater and opera considered Mexico to be a country of shame in allowing the killings of women and treating their artists as “litms”. He urged President López Obrador to give more answers to the problem of femicide and gender-based violence.
From here I ask you, to gather one neuron to the other, do synapses and think of a slightly more real answer, a little more decent and a little less embarrassing,” the message says.
In the day gone, during his morning conference, the President set aside the issue of femicides to talk about the raffle related to the presidential plane, prompting criticism and protests.
