Women’s Deaths Are Worth Less in Mexico: Journalists

Guadalajara, Jalisco. – The deaths of women in Mexico are less important for society and the media, agreed women journalists during a discussion table organized by the Spanish newspaper El País, during the International Book Fair in Guadalajara 2021.In the realization of the table “Women and the fight against discrimination in Mexico and America”, where Gabriela Warketin, journalist and host, Marion Reimers, sports journalist, Alma Delia Murillo, writer and Sonia Corona, editor-in-chief of El País Mexico, agreed on the lack of visibility and interest in femicide both in the media and in society itself.” The importance we attach to the deaths of women in this country is symbolic of the importance that women have at the social level. Our deaths are not worth the same,” said Marion Reimers, who is currently a commentator on TNT Sports and HBO Max.During the talk among the women journalists, they told their experiences of discrimination because of their gender, with social networks being the media where women are most attacked and where little is defended. In marion’s case, he explained the havoc caused by the threats of rape or death that he receives for being the one who is narrating the Champions League matches in the chain where he works and that they have the exclusive rights. For her part, Gabriela Warketin, radio host, before the question posed to the three by DEBATE, about what is missing in the media to make visible the cases of femicides and disappearances, mentioned that we must talk about it, but also as a society make an effort to be more interested in the subject. For her part, Alma Delia Murillo told the acts of discrimination experienced by women, who also suffer because of their race or social position, which makes them revictimized in different ways.” I am the daughter of the cleaning lady, I am the daughter of a domestic worker (…) they locked me in the closeth because I was very brown and they did not see the visits of the lady who owns the house, that continues to happen in this country. ” The women journalists explained from their experiences the difficulties they go through due to their gender and also how through their constant work they have excelled in professions where men previously dominated more. Gabriela Warketin highlighted the need to create support networks, sisterhood, the action that women can support each other so that in their day to day, not since the situations, threats, aggressions and discriminations they live become easier, but so that they know that they are not alone. Read more: 12 mothers of the disappeared were murdered in Mexico in 2021 “The accompaniment we have had, the emotional and intellectual accompaniment, in this group or in another (…) I do believe that we have allowed ourselves to reflect in another way on power. Power means being able to do and being able to help make it happen,” the announcer explained. Unworthy that AMLO attacks critics as president: Krauze

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