Sheinbaum confirmed meeting with feminists to discuss Glorieta de las Mujeres

The head of the government of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, He announced that he would meet with feminist groups to discuss the Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan.

under the International Women’s Day On March 8, the president of the capital took part in the unveiling of the statue of Dolores Jiménez y Muro on the Paseo de las Heroínas. Prior to the event, he announced that he would hold the meeting next Thursday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m.

The announcement came after criticism the head of government received after saying that women who don’t want The young woman from Amajac in the Glorieta, they are “profoundly racist”. Now the president has clarified that it was a misunderstanding.

“Yesterday they took it badly, I did not say that. I said: ‘Not wanting an indigenous person is racist’, not towards you”, he told the media this Sunday, March 5, before the event where he brought together governors and secretaries of ‘State.

And it is that it was last Saturday that, during a public demonstration in Michoacanaccompanied by the governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla, The presidential candidate spoke about the roundabout affair. “Those who don’t want The young woman from Amajac —which is a Huastec figure, found in Álamo, Veracruz— women who don’t want that, basically they are deeply racist“, he expressed.

“We fight against all forms of discrimination, against everyone, because we don’t want there to be any discrimination, machismo, racism or classism. It’s called Mexican humanism,” Sheinbaum Pardo said.

The controversy revolves around the roundabout where a statue of Christopher Columbus previously stood on Avenida Reformation walk. The Sheinbaum government has proposed that a replica of the mentioned statue be placed in its place, while various feminist groups argue that a antimonument in order to make visible the femicide violence experienced in Mexico, as well as to change the name of the space to Glorieta of women who fight.

This is why, after the president’s slip, he committed himself to a new meeting. Meanwhile, during the demonstration this afternoon, groups of families of missing families, as well as feminists, demonstrated in front of the head of government.

After the dialogues, both groups should have their own space. On the one hand, search groups for missing persons will have their space in the Ahuehuete Roundabout and women will have the belvedere where the statue of Columbus was.

During the inauguration, the head of government counted on the support of the female governors and secretaries of state of the federal government. The event was attended by Mara Lezama, from Quintana Roo; Layda Sansores, from Campeche; Indira Vizcaíno, governor of Colima; Evelyn Salgado, of Guerrero; Marina del Pilar, from Baja California; Alejandra Fraustro, Secretary of Culture and Delfina Gómez, Morena’s candidate for the State of Mexico.

Yet Sheinbaum’s statements last Saturday were taken advantage of by his political opponents, as was the National Action senator (PAN), Kenya Lopez Rabadanwho cataloged the president of the capital as “inhuman” and “irresponsible”.

“When I make the decisions, the victims will have justice and the families will have safety. The Glorieta will be called the Glorieta des Combattantes. Claudia Sheinbaum is as inhuman as she is irresponsible. He campaigns -illegally- and turns his back on the women of CDMX,” condemned the lawmaker, who aspires to be Va por México’s candidate for city government.

Likewise, the vice-coordinator of the PAN in the Senate condemned that the capital of the country is the fourth most dangerous entity for women. “And yet the head of government, within the framework of International Women’s Day, calls herself ‘the voice of women’. He’s not ashamed,” he accused via Twitter.