The 25 November red bench was placed in front of the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres. In 2019, a bench was installed at the University of Guadalajara. On the same date, but in front of the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres, located a few blocks away from Plaza de Armas, it was installed a red bench which was also symbolically named Antimonumenta, but referred to as " Banca Roja" to distinguish it from the other anti-monument.Īs part of a global campaign, red benches are installed to denounce gender violence as they symbolize those who were and those who will come. On the opposite side, the Antimonumenta reads "Memory, truth and justice", and in the central part "Not one more". It is a metal sculpture whose upper part has written in Spanish, in pink capital letters: "Neither forgive nor forget", while on the arm of the cross it is written "No + femicides". According to the installers, it represents the victims of femicide in the state of Jalisco and it is a method to demand that the authorities and society stop femicides. In feminism, the color purple represents "loyalty, constancy towards a purpose unwavering firmness towards a cause". The Antimonumenta is painted in purple and pink and it is represented with the symbol of the feminist struggle, which is based on the symbol of Venus with a raised fist in the center. On 8 March 2021, the date commemorating International Women's Day and during the annual march, multiple women performed a song titled "Canción sin miedo" next to the Antimonumenta. By November 2020, the second trial was appealed and was awaiting a new trial. In 2017 her husband received a sentence that was appealed and the trial had to be re-tried. Her husband was charged with parricide and the others with first-degree murder none were charged with femicide. According to the prosecutors, in September 2012 her husband hired two others to rape and kill her. Imelda Josefina Virgen Rodríguez was an academic and the first woman to be killed after the approval of femicide as a crime in Jalisco. The installers also symbolically renamed Plaza de Armas to "Plaza Imelda Virgen". Īlthough similar in shape, the antimonumentas installed across the country have different inscriptions. During the installation, Enrique Ibarra Pedroza, Secretary General of the State Government, tried to negotiate the site where the Antimonumenta would be placed but only received complaints that he should have attended to them when they requested meetings to talk to him. It occurred amid the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico in which 230 women were killed between January and September of that year and 39 of them were investigated as femicides. It was placed during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Antimonumenta was installed on 25 November 2020 in the Plaza de Armas, in the historic center of Guadalajara, Jalisco. The Antimonumenta (below) is opposite to the State Government Palace of Jalisco History and installation Plaza de Armas in 2021. The erection of an antimonumenta symbolizes the demand for justice for women who suffer from violence in the country. The sculpture is symbolically named Antimonumenta and it was inspired by the anti-monument of the same name placed in Mexico City a year prior.ĭuring the same march, feminists also installed a red bench, which was placed in front of the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres, and symbolically renamed Plaza de Armas to Plaza Imelda Virgen, a murdered woman. Victims of violence against women in MexicoĪn antimonumenta was installed in the Plaza de Armas, in Guadalajara, Jalisco on 25 November 2020, the date commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence.
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