Women march in Jalisco for the disappeared and murdered

In front of everyone’s eyes was a van, but not just any van. It was one that in all its contour held search cards for missing persons. For example, it announced the search for Sandra Nayeli and Fatima Arisbeth, to mention some of the more than 15,000 missing people in Jalisco. 
With this, collectives coordinated by the YoVoy8deMarzo network made it clear that the intention of the march of this #8M was to demand from the authorities the return of all the missing women in the state and the investigation of femicides.
Along the way, between the exit at the roundabout of the disappeared and the arrival at the antimonumenta in the Plaza Imelda Virgen, the demonstrators chanted again and again: “Not one more!” 

“Decades of repeating it: they are killing us. We haven’t tired of yelling at it, but they still don’t hear us. Here we are back in the streets marching for violence that crosses us and wounds us head-on every day, 11 femicides a day in Mexico and more than 14,000 disappeared in Jalisco. We are tired of being told that it is not so much,” the network said in a statement. 
While the phrase “Not one more!” was repeated, packed families hugged and cried out for justice or uttered the name of their relative who is no longer there. 
Such is the case of the family of Rosario, a 22-year-old girl murdered by her husband at the end of 2021 in the municipality of Zapopan. Despite the fact that she was four months pregnant and that the husband had threatened her with weapons, the authorities decided that there was not enough evidence and released the aggressor. 

On the same #8M, the network of Unión Diversa Jalisco recalled that the UN Committee against Forced Disappearance maintains the search demands of Kenia Duarte Pérez and Karla García Duarte, two trans women who were disappeared in September 2020 in Zapopan and whose investigations there is no progress.
In each moment of fracture, the families of the victims received love and hope. So it was with Aurora, who has been looking for Sandra since 2018, when she was last seen in Guadalajara on her way home. The attendees, seeing her sob, chanted “Justice for Sandra” and hugged her. 
In addition, on the corners you could see mothers, daughters and sons holding signs to show support for the protesters and recognizing that they did not want their sons to be males, but men. Others gave flowers in solidarity in the search for justice. 
You could also see scenes of older adults coming out to their balconies or windows to say hello, as protesters shouted “Woman, this is your fight.” 

#8M22 | In Guadalajara, the families of victims of femicide and disappearance proclaim themselves next to the antimonument Imelda Virgen.
They call for justice for those killed and the return home of all the disappeared.
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Among the attendees, they helped to display impressions with images that denounced a rapist, a harasser or a beater. “The system ignored my complaint, help me stick this sisters,” said one of the young women as she handed out some of the leaves with trembling hands. 
When the contingent arrived at the antimonumenta, in the Plaza Imelda Virgen, the relatives of victims were able to express themselves about what the search and impunity have entailed. 
The sisters of Imelda Virgen, an academic who was murdered by thugs who received orders from her husband and whose case was the first typified as femicide in the state, recognized the series of violence and revictimizations they have experienced during the last 10 years, for their process of access to justice and reparation of the damage.
Other relatives of victims demanded the presence of Governor Enrique Alfaro. “You are needed here more than in the Jalisco stadium,” said the father of Dulce, a young woman who was killed by her partner, an employee of the state Congress. 
Finally, some minors clamored for the return of their mothers and, with a broken voice, the attendees reminded them not to be alone. 
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