With “Ellas hablan”, Perifónicas gives voice to women who suffered various forms of violence during the dirty war in

it was like that Cecilia Guerrero, Mayela Sanchez Yes Jocelyn Soto (members of peripheral devices), arrived at the municipality of Atoyac in Warriorone of the most violent entities of this period, where they encountered the “Collective of Wives and Children of the Disappeared of the Dirty War of the Municipality of Atoyac de Álvarez Guerrero”and from where they collected the testimonies of ‘older’ women, who were convinced to speak to us, to tell, for the first time, a story that their families had not even heard,” Soto said.

The first season will consist of four episodes where military control is shown through checkpoints in communities and in the lives of women; the implications of girls and boys left in the care of their families in the absence (due to disappearance) of their parents; and the medium- and long-term impact of the siege on the lives of victims.

“Understanding violence against women in the past will give us clues to understanding violence against women today, understanding why, for example, increasingly atrocious violence against of women performs in public spaces, and opens the question: ‘Does this have to do with the militarization of the country or not?’ “, explained Jocelyn.

Truth, justice and reparation for the families affected, is one of the messages that Perifónicas seeks to send with “Ellas se quedan”: “The wound is open to everyone, not only for the government, but as a society, we have everyone has a responsibility to attend to what happened and to avoid, as the ladies themselves say, a repeat”, concluded Jocelyn Soto.

• It is composed of Celia Guerrero Acosta, Mayela Sánchez García and Jocelyn Soto Espinoza.
• They came to open the doors by force, kicking them…” thus begins the story of Rosalba Ramos Cabañas in the first episode of “Ellas se quedan”, the new podcast with which Perifónicas gives voice to women victims of violence during the dirty war in Mexico.
• We have started to carry out an investigation which is still ongoing on this new Commission for Access to the Truth which seeks to clarify all the human rights violations that occurred during the period of the dirty war”, declared Jocelyn Soto Espinoza, freelance journalist and member of Periphonics. .

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