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So much blood the river took away,

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I come to offer my heart.

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Every year the murder
of these women increase.

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SIX WOMEN ARE MURDERED EVERY DAY
IN MEXICO

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There are violations, lies,
kidnappings.

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A WOMAN IS RAPED EVERY FOUR HOURS
IN MEXICO

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And you wonder, where are they?

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I mean,
where are all of those women?

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Who said everything is lost?

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I come to offer my heart.

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AT THE GATES OF HELL

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When having a woman\'s name...

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...puts you at risk.

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When you disappear,
you are kidnapped...

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...or killed,...

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...and you become a number.

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If you are one of those women
who,...

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...at any time,...

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...could become part
of a cruel statistic.

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Then, being a woman...

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...is like living
at the gates of hell.

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I want justice!
Justice and more justice!

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Down with impunity!

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I want your respect!

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The mask represents the face...

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...that has been taken
from every woman killed.

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I represent the unknown killed,
I have no name,...

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...I have no face,
I have no body,...

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...I have no grave
for someone to cry for me.

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The wings represent the dreams,...

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...the broken dreams taken...

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...because they were killed.

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I was kidnapped
on April 12th 2012,...

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...that day
I was going to school,...

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...I saw my mom and I said goodbye
for the last time.

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A month ago, they found my body...

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...after five years.

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A fucking bastard raped me,...

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...killed me and left me
in an empty land.

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The colors grey, white, brown,...

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...represent the forgotten,
the poverty,...

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...the impunity in all Ecapetec
and the State of Mexico.

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Why do you do this?

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Because where I live,...

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...well, I live in Ecatepec,...

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...there are many cases
of women killed,...

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...poor women,...

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...women without access to justice.

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Because you are afraid?

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I live in fear all time,...

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...afraid of being assaulted,...

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...afraid of suffering
what I went through.

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And what happened to you, Carolina?

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I went with my daddy,...

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...it was almost seven
in the morning,...

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...when suddenly a black pick-up
stopped and obstructed our way.

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A guy got off, showed us a gun.

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And tells me:
\"Get on the pick-up.\"

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He took my arm
and pointed at my dad.

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A shot was heard right there,
within the pick-up,...

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...and I was really scared.

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And his friend told him:
\"Leave them,...

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...it\'s not worth it,...

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...let them go.\"

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And we seized the moment to run,...

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...but before that, the guy,...

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...was grabbing me
and shot in the air.

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What do you think
they wanted to do?

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I closed my eyes when they were
pointing with the gun,...

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...I thought my life
would end right there.

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Don\'t you smell death?

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This is the smell prevailing...

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...in most abandoned places.

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It\'s a quiet place now,...

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...but let\'s imagine it
by night,...

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...it\'s an empty place.

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It\'s easy to rape a girl,...

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...to do what they want.

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Finding the body of a woman...

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...is part of living here,
in Ecatepec.

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They found one,
a body appeared there.

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They come, remove it.

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Who was it? Who knows who will be?

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The girl is not from here,
who knows where she is from?

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They brought her here,...

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...they did
what they wanted with her,...

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...and they left her there,
that is very common.

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Manuel, below us,...

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...we have
the colony Hank González,...

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...in Ecatepec.
That is, possibly,...

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...the most dangerous place
for a woman in all Mexico.

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Indeed, unfortunately is a well
known place owing to violence,...

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...the disappearance of girls,...

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...of teenagers and femicides.

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How many inhabitants
has this place?

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Ecatepec has almost
1,700,000 people,...

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...it\'s the biggest municipality
in Latin America.

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And how many women have been
victims of violence,...

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...have been killed
for the sole reason...

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...of being a woman in one year?

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Last year, there were
270 women registered dead.

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And this year, I think
the numbers are not dropping,...

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...quite the contrary,
they are increasing,...

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...aren\'t they?
-Indeed.

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This place where we are
must have something to be...

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...the most dangerous place
in Mexico to be a woman.

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Well we\'re talking about
the suburbs of a city in Mexico,...

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...we are talking
about these places,...

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...that have increased their
population owing to migration,...

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...owing to the dismantling
of the countryside...

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...and the migration to the city.

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And that migration happens
in the poorest places.

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Those men, marginal macho men,...

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...are also men
excluded from a system:

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unemployed and in the street,...

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...they do illegal jobs,...

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...that are exploited,
long work days.

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They come home,...

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...they come to these places
and say: \"I have power here.\"

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They\'re mistreated by the society.
-By the system.

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What they do is mistreat
any person they can,...

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...in this case, women,
or their women,...

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...the most vulnerable people.

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Yes, women appear
in the black water channels,...

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...cruelly punched, mutilated.

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And there it is, the body appears
as if it were rubbish.

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You are teacher
of teen boys and girls,...

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...what do they tell you?

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I have seen
those silences from girls,...

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...I have seen
their lack of reaction...

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...when their teen boyfriends
start mistreating them,...

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...this violence, I have seen it...

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...even in relationships:
\"I am going to leave you\",...

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...\"I kill you, if you leave me,
I\'ll kill you\".

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Or on one occasion, I saw a girl
resisting being kidnapped,...

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...the face was not just shaken,...

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...it was totally disfigured
by crying,...

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...but also because I did not know
what was going on.

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That\'s an example of the realities
I started to face,...

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...the stories of violence
from girls with their relatives,...

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...of sexual violence,...

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...bullying stories
in the street that are normal.

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Hi!

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Come in.

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When I came here,
to Mexico City,...

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...about three years ago or so,...

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...because there was
so much violence...

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...in the street where I lived,...

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...there were two rape attempts,...

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...and one of them was
my little sister who was 12, right?

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Did you decide to go from Ecatepec
to Mexico City...

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...because you felt
that insecurity in the street,...

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...because you could not walk?

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Yes, all the time.

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I have suffered bullying
since I was a girl.

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I have a sister,
she is one year older than me,...

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...and I remember
she came crying to the shop once:

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\"The neighbour told me whatever\".

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And my dad went and was mad
with him and told him:

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\"Don\'t say anything
to my daughters\".

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And we were just girls!
We were eight.

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I don\'t remember not feeling
that sensation of fear, right?

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What do you think is the role...

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...of a young woman like you
right now,...

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...right here in Mexico?

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In fact women are seen
as a thing...

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...to be mistreated,...

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...anything could be done
to them...

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...because no one is going
to demand justice for her.

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This is the prevailing idea, isn\'t?

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Where the man goes out achieving...

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...and the woman
must administer,...

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...and any woman
not respecting the rule,...

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...then she suffers, etc.

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That is to say, of course women...

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...are vulnerable and insecure.

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And the places
where I feel more secure...

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...are the places
with surveillance cameras,...

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...for example, the transport
with surveillance cameras...

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...is Metrobus,...

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...because I know there\'s a minimum
control of people, right?

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And because no one is assaulted...

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...and because it has a policy
of dividing men and women.

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Maybe that\'s not
the immediate solution,...

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...but one feels different,
you know?

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However, when I come back
to Ecatepec,...

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...anytime I visit
my grandfather,...

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I tell my mom: \"Wait for me\",...

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...or I always go with my gas,
I use tear gas.

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I go with my gas all the time.

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Do you bring gas
to defend yourself?

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Yes, all the time.
-Today you come here...

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...showing your arms,...

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...would you go walking
like this in Ecatepec?

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No, of course not.

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In fact, it\'s a problem
because after visiting my mom,...

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...I bring a big suitcase,...

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because what I have to do is going
with pants, not standing out.

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Trainers, right?
In case I have to run.

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I mean...
Not wearing hair loose,...

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...but not only wearing ponytail
because they could grab me.

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That is the point when a person
has to consider what to wear,...

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...what hairstyle to choose.

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And that\'s it, male chauvinism
determines the life...

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...of many women
in their daily lives.

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In Mexico City,...

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...the bullying they suffered
on public transport...

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...became a serial problem.

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The authorities were obliged
to separate the spaces...

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...spaces for men and women
on buses and the underground.

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It\'s not a solution,...

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...just a small remedy.

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But the danger in Mexico
is anywhere.

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She is Ivonne.
-Yes.

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Your daughter.

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Yes.

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Before she disappeared,
I was very happy.

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I felt life was lucky.

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It was on Monday,
on May 30th 2011.

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In fact, on Sunday
we were here at home,...

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...we prepared roasted meat.

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It was the last time I saw her.

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Her husband called me
and asked me if she was with me.

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He said: \"Ivonne has not returned.\"

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It was strange that she could have
left, she had two babies.

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18 days after she left,...

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...I returned again
to the Public Department...

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...to find out
if there was any news,...

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...and they told me:
\"We cannot find the file,...

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...come tomorrow, come tomorrow\"
So I returned...

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The file of...
-The investigation.

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They didn\'t find your daughter\'s
investigation file?

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Yes, it was lost.

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I went to Toluca and there I talked
to the gender deputy attorney,...

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...that was painting her nails...

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...while I was reporting to her
my problem,...

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...and she was
looking at her nails.

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I told her:
\"How is that possible?\"...

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...\"She\'s my daughter\",...

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...\"she\'s a human being\",...

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...\"Why don\'t they look for her?\"

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One of those days,
I went to the Public Department,...

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...I saw a mom that seemed
to have few resources...

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...and she was also told:
\"No, come tomorrow.\"

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And I heard that woman say to her:
\"I spend 50 pesos on ticket\",...

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...\"how do I come to look
for my daughter?\"

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She was answered:
\"As you wish, ma\'am.\"

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I was looking at them and I told:
\"The same as me.\"

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They are doing to you
the same as to me.

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When my daughter appeared,
my daughter was dead,...

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...she was killed the very day
she disappeared.

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In Pachuca,
there they found her body,...

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...but they did not tell us.

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For two years,...

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...everytime I went to sleep,...

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...I said: \"I\'m very warm\",...

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...\"I\'m under a roof\",...

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...\"I\'m sheltered\",...

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...\"and my daughter,
where is she?\"

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And what reason
did they give you, Leticia,...

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...for telling you your daughter
had been in a morgue for two years?

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That they ordered services.

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But, what do they do?

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The service comes, for example,
it came to the State,...

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...where they had to say:
\"Well, a service is coming\",...

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...\"I\'m going to check it\", right?

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I see what features it has...

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...and one of the people
I\'m looking for...

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...has the same features,...

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...then we act,
we obtain the genetic profile...

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...and we find out
if it\'s the same girl, but no.

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And do you think, Leticia,
that\'s negligence,...

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...or that it\'s something
intentional?

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Because, obviously, it does not
make sense that a city...

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...or a country
has more disappeared women...

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...than dead women, right?

00:15:45.640 --> 00:15:47.240
Numbers change so much.

00:15:47.280 --> 00:15:51.160
The same government sometimes
is afraid of bringing to light...

00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:55.040
...that women are killed
in its state,...

00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.440
...in case these women
have a relative...

00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.960
...and that relative
is going to claim.

00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.760
Is going to claim justice,...

00:16:02.800 --> 00:16:06.560
...it\'s easier for them to say:
\"We put them in a common grave...

00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.760
...and, let\'s see\",
what do they say?

00:16:09.800 --> 00:16:12.520
If they don\'t find her, better,...

00:16:12.560 --> 00:16:14.320
...so there won\'t be anyone
claiming them,...

00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:17.320
...there\'s no one starting
a procedure.

00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:19.160
And do you know
what happened to her, Leticia?

00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.760
Did they tell you anything?
-Yes, I know what happened to her.

00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:30.200
He was an ex boyfriend of her
and said: \"If she is not for me,...

00:16:30.280 --> 00:16:31.800
...she will not be
for anyone else.\"

00:16:33.400 --> 00:16:38.000
And he took her family too,...

00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.360
...specially my grand-daughters,...

00:16:44.640 --> 00:16:49.360
...because he condemned them
to live without her mother.

00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:36.280
That girl came as unknown
and her nationality was French.

00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:38.800
It was important
to keep her more time...

00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.040
...to give her relatives
a chance,...

00:17:41.080 --> 00:17:43.640
...or the Embassy
through the Consulate,...

00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:45.320
...so they could claim the body.

00:17:45.360 --> 00:17:49.120
And if at any time the family
reports it\'s not interested,...

00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:52.200
...well, then she is delivered
to a common grave.

00:17:56.560 --> 00:17:59.080
Doctor, what is the process
you perform here,...

00:17:59.120 --> 00:18:00.440
...at the Forensic Institute,...

00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.360
...when the body
of a woman comes in?

00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:06.800
Take of vaginal, anal
or oral swab.

00:18:06.840 --> 00:18:10.160
Very important,
this will be decisive...

00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:13.840
...to establish not only
the presence, for instance,...

00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:18.640
...of spermatozoids from
the seminal liquid, P30 protein,...

00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.480
...but also, even,
in some cases,...

00:18:21.520 --> 00:18:24.920
...a genetic profile
of the probable attacker.

00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.120
I have been told, that maybe,...

00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.200
...at this moment,
there is even more cruelty,...

00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.320
...more rage,
in the homicides of women,...

00:18:32.360 --> 00:18:37.120
...many of them appear with
the bodies and faces blurred,...

00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:38.880
...with the bodies quartered.

00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:40.960
I don\'t know if that is the truth.

00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:43.600
In some cases,...

00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:48.200
...there has been this kind
of rage with the corpse,...

00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:49.840
...with the victim\'s corpse.

00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:55.440
But is not common,
they just take their lives,...

00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.440
...sometimes there are
some sexual violations,...

00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.800
...but there is not
that kind of extreme rage.

00:19:09.320 --> 00:19:11.080
How long do the bodies...

00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:13.760
...of these unidentified people
remain here, in the Institute?

00:19:13.800 --> 00:19:15.920
That varies, as an average,...

00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:17.720
...they could be here
for three weeks.

00:19:17.760 --> 00:19:21.120
At present we have a common
but mass grave,...

00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.160
...we need space
to have more common graves,...

00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.520
...but also single ones,
so at any time we could deliver,...

00:19:29.560 --> 00:19:31.000
...with all certainty,...

00:19:31.040 --> 00:19:34.840
...the remains to the relative
with the right to claim them.

00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:39.720
Out of all the bodies that
come here, to the institute,...

00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:42.640
...more or less,
what volume remains unidentified?

00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.200
We are talking about 400 corpses...

00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.600
...that are sent
to the grave every year.

00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:53.160
That\'s an immense number,
really high.

00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:57.160
There should not be
any single person coming here,...

00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.520
...to the institute,
for the autopsy,...

00:20:00.560 --> 00:20:02.600
...that remains as an unknown.

00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.520
But then,
what\'s the reason to deliver...

00:20:05.560 --> 00:20:08.120
...the body of a daughter
to a family, for example,...

00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:09.680
...one year or two years later,...

00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:12.760
...when she has been in the
forensic institute all that time?

00:20:12.800 --> 00:20:15.240
It\'s due to lack
of information exchange...

00:20:15.280 --> 00:20:18.080
...with the forensic services
from the inside of the government.

00:20:18.120 --> 00:20:22.800
We must remember that Mexico
has 33 forensic services

00:20:22.840 --> 00:20:27.200
...and each of them has information
it doesn\'t share with each other.

00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:29.280
Sure, if a woman disappears...

00:20:29.320 --> 00:20:32.440
...or is kidnapped
in a State of Mexico,...

00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:36.040
...and they bring her
to Jalisco and kill her there,...

00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:38.640
...the relatives are never
going to know that that woman...

00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.040
...died there because
you don\'t have that coordination.

00:20:41.120 --> 00:20:42.560
Exactly, Sonia.

00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:46.600
We will have to make it much more
accessible for the families.

00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:07.760
Every year
the murder of these women increase.

00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:16.680
What is a feminicide?
-In Mexico,...

00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:19.600
...it has been legally defined...

00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:24.000
...as the privation of a woman\'s
life owing to gender.

00:21:24.600 --> 00:21:28.800
But not all the murders of women
committed in Mexico...

00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:31.240
...are classified as feminicides,
right?

00:21:31.280 --> 00:21:33.160
I guess this is one of your fights.

00:21:33.560 --> 00:21:36.400
You\'re right,
it\'s better for the state,...

00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:38.280
...or is easier for it,...

00:21:38.360 --> 00:21:40.920
...to classify
these crimes as homicides.

00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:42.000
Why?

00:21:42.080 --> 00:21:43.600
Because when we talk
about femicides,...

00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:47.120
...we are not only talking
about a crime,...

00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.600
...but also the violation
of human rights,...

00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:52.120
...where the state has
a responsibility...

00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:54.720
...for not having prevented
it properly,...

00:21:54.760 --> 00:21:58.360
...for not having helped
the victims properly...

00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.320
...and for not having
penalized similar crimes.

00:22:01.360 --> 00:22:05.520
The impunity in the case
of femicides reaches the 99 %.

00:22:05.560 --> 00:22:08.760
Only one in 100 femicide
perpitrators is in jail.

00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:10.720
Indeed, well, is going
to receive a sentence,...

00:22:10.760 --> 00:22:13.440
...although it doesn\'t mean
the sentence is a condemnation.

00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:16.560
What interest could a government
have in sending this message:

00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:18.800
\"You can kill women
because nothing will happen.\"

00:22:18.840 --> 00:22:22.480
It\'s just it does not care
about considering violence...

00:22:22.520 --> 00:22:25.200
...against women
as a private matter,...

00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:29.200
...this male chauvinism that
still rules this society,...

00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:31.520
...where one of the less
secure places...

00:22:31.560 --> 00:22:34.800
...for women and girls
is their homes.

00:22:34.840 --> 00:22:37.720
We have identified
the person responsible...

00:22:37.760 --> 00:22:40.680
...and even then
they are not punished.

00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:46.040
It\'s not possible
to have details agreed...

00:22:46.080 --> 00:22:47.360
...between all the institutions,...

00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:49.960
...both public security
and the justice administration...

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:51.920
...regarding the number
of women killed.

00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:54.080
And, in fact,
there is so much difference...

00:22:54.120 --> 00:22:56.280
...between the numbers given
by the authorities...

00:22:56.320 --> 00:22:59.240
...and the numbers given by
non-governmental organizations.

00:22:59.280 --> 00:23:03.440
Of course. How many people
are serving a sentence...

00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:05.480
...for having killed a woman?

00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:06.520
We don\'t know.

00:23:06.560 --> 00:23:09.400
The State should have to show...

00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.960
...a particular interest
in solving those crimes,...

00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.040
...to bring to justice
the attackers,...

00:23:15.080 --> 00:23:16.840
...and that they serve
their sentences.

00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:18.960
Is it dangerous to be a woman here,
in Mexico?

00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.960
Indeed, thinking or living
in a county where everyday...

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.840
...seven women and girls
are killed with impunity,...

00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.320
...that means it\'s a risk factor.

00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.000
Knowing that,
if you are walking,...

00:23:32.080 --> 00:23:33.760
...and you live in Mexico,...

00:23:33.800 --> 00:23:37.200
...there is a high probability
that you don\'t come back home...

00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:38.800
...or that you suffer
a violation,...

00:23:38.840 --> 00:23:41.040
...or that you are
a victim of a femicide.

00:23:41.080 --> 00:23:42.400
That\'s pretty alarming.

00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:46.840
10 % of femicides committed
in this country...

00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:49.000
...are committed against girls,...

00:23:49.320 --> 00:23:52.280
...girls from zero to five.

00:23:52.320 --> 00:23:54.480
Then, well, when a girl
is about to be born,...

00:23:54.520 --> 00:23:55.960
...there are still people that say:

00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.320
\"Poor girl,
she\'s going to suffer so much\"

00:23:58.360 --> 00:24:01.760
I\'m convinced that women
do not live to suffer,...

00:24:01.800 --> 00:24:04.000
...women live to be happy.

00:24:04.040 --> 00:24:06.160
With that conviction we work.

00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:27.960
My name is Carmen Zamora,...

00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:29.800
...it\'s just my device sounded,...

00:24:29.840 --> 00:24:31.360
...but I\'m in an interview...

00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:32.760
...and I couldn\'t answer.

00:24:32.840 --> 00:24:34.440
Yes, everything\'s okay,
thank you.

00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.760
Freire.

00:24:35.800 --> 00:24:37.440
Yes, right.

00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:39.760
See you then, young lady,
thank you.

00:24:39.800 --> 00:24:43.680
Have you given a key, right?
-Yes, so they know it\'s me.

00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:46.480
How often do they call you?
-Every hour.

00:24:46.520 --> 00:24:47.880
Every hour?

00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:51.840
And if I don\'t answer, they...
-They activate an alarm, isn\'t it?

00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:55.320
That is connected
to the public forces...

00:24:55.360 --> 00:24:57.200
...of Mexico and the Federal ones.

00:24:57.520 --> 00:25:01.040
Well, it\'s useless,
it isn\'t really a protection.

00:25:01.080 --> 00:25:04.720
Because I already used it once,
on January of this year,...

00:25:04.760 --> 00:25:08.720
...when my attacker found me,...

00:25:09.760 --> 00:25:12.880
...I pushed it,
and they did nothing,...

00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:14.960
...the police didn\'t arrest him.

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:16.720
You suffered violence.

00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:19.200
It was on March the 17th, 2007.

00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:21.160
I was going to college to work,...

00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.960
...and he stopped in front of me
and broke my blouse.

00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.720
Was he your partner in that moment?
-My husband, my husband.

00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:30.560
Later, he put me upside down,...

00:25:30.600 --> 00:25:33.200
...he was over me
and penetrated me anally,...

00:25:34.320 --> 00:25:36.600
...and he puts a plastic bag
over my head.

00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:39.960
He was very violent with me.

00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:45.000
On March 19th, he hit me,
my children came in,...

00:25:45.040 --> 00:25:48.640
...and he started
strangling me in the yard,...

00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:51.360
...he kicked me out and left.

00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.520
And I reported
to the Public Ministry.

00:25:53.560 --> 00:25:58.440
I needed eight years,
almost nine, to put him in jail.

00:26:02.760 --> 00:26:04.520
He was there only eight months...

00:26:04.560 --> 00:26:06.280
...because he went out,
he had protection.

00:26:08.120 --> 00:26:09.560
And...

00:26:10.360 --> 00:26:12.280
I\'m still in so much risk.

00:26:12.320 --> 00:26:16.080
Outside my home he writes:
\"You\'re already dead.\"

00:26:16.120 --> 00:26:18.320
I know he is going to be free,...

00:26:18.360 --> 00:26:22.160
...that at any time I could appear
in the femicide statistics,...

00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:23.680
...and what should I do?

00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:28.600
Keep on fighting,
because I will not stay quiet.

00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:33.040
Elisa, and you have that very
sensation of insecurity and fear?

00:26:33.080 --> 00:26:35.960
For this one, for my attacker.

00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.480
I met my attacker in 2009,...

00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:42.920
...he asked me to marry him
on August 17th 2010,...

00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:46.920
...but I see his attitude
towards me was more violent,...

00:26:47.040 --> 00:26:50.120
...they were not insults
like at home,...

00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:53.480
...then started the pushes,
the slaps.

00:26:53.560 --> 00:26:55.320
He showed me pictures of dead...

00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:58.200
...and mutilated women
on his cellphone,...

00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.280
...and he told me: \"You see?
That\'s how you are?\"

00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:03.880
And I told him: \"No,
then you aren\'t a woman hit,...

00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:05.680
...get it stuck in your head.\"

00:27:07.040 --> 00:27:09.880
Later the argues started...

00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:12.440
...because he is police officer
in Mexico City,...

00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:15.640
...and he is active right now,...

00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:19.240
...he has permit
to carry a firearm.

00:27:19.280 --> 00:27:25.240
Until May 26th 2016,
when I decided to report him,...

00:27:25.280 --> 00:27:27.280
...because he hit me
in the street,...

00:27:27.320 --> 00:27:29.240
...he still looks for me.

00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:31.480
Could I make you a question, Elisa?
-Yes.

00:27:31.520 --> 00:27:32.760
Why do you have the picture?

00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:37.360
For fear.

00:27:39.280 --> 00:27:42.160
Because I\'m afraid
of finding him in the corner...

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:44.960
...and that they do not know
who my attacker is.

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:46.880
I bring this, all my papers,...

00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.360
...my documents, always with me...

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.840
...until he is arrested
and pays for what he did.

00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:57.040
In other words,
you always take with you...

00:27:57.080 --> 00:27:58.960
...so it\'s known
who your attacker is...

00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:01.560
...and that you are not
inventing it, that\'s the point.

00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:03.880
Yes, because
if there is no evidence,...

00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:05.360
...there is no crime to pursue.

00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:08.000
That\'s how it works here.

00:28:08.040 --> 00:28:13.520
Here in Mexico,
poverty is punished, not crime.

00:28:13.560 --> 00:28:14.680
And in Mexico,...

00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.440
...being a woman,
a native and poor,...

00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:23.720
...is really decisive for you
in not accessing the justice.

00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:49.560
Why is it decided that
one murder is femicide...

00:28:49.600 --> 00:28:51.040
...and another one is homicide?

00:28:51.080 --> 00:28:55.120
The wilful homicide of a woman
is the violent murder of a woman...

00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.160
...for reasons
that have nothing to do...

00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:59.120
...with their traditional
gender roles,...

00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:00.440
for example,...

00:29:00.520 --> 00:29:03.760
...if a woman goes walking
in the street...

00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:08.480
...and is assaulted with violence,
she resisted the assault,...

00:29:08.520 --> 00:29:11.920
...and then, the attacker,
so as to take her belongings,...

00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:13.160
...took her life.

00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:17.120
This could have happened
to a woman, or a man.

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:25.600
If, however, a woman loses her life
in her private space, at home,...

00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:30.240
...when her partner
comes home drunk,...

00:29:30.520 --> 00:29:34.800
...and finds his dinner
is not served,...

00:29:34.840 --> 00:29:38.960
...and then hits her
until he takes her life.

00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:43.080
That is a femicide:
Who has suffered sexual abuse,...

00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:45.200
...the fact that her freedom
has been taken,...

00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.640
...or that she has suffered
any mutilation,...

00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.120
...or that she has been
thrown in the street,...

00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.160
...show us the disclaim
for a woman\'s body.

00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:00.240
And then, we identify
that there is a femicide.

00:30:00.280 --> 00:30:02.200
There is a sentence
I have to repeat,...

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.600
...that almost everyone says:

00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.280
\"Men kill women
because they can kill them.\"

00:30:07.320 --> 00:30:09.240
I think it\'s more obvious
than that,...

00:30:09.280 --> 00:30:11.240
...it is impunity
that\'s being fought.

00:30:11.280 --> 00:30:14.080
They are afraid without
any doubt of their attacker,...

00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:18.320
...but they also tell you that
authorities make them feel guilty.

00:30:18.360 --> 00:30:22.960
It\'s a matter of modifying
this culture,...

00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:29.280
...and that civil servants have a
more equal and sensitive approach.

00:30:29.320 --> 00:30:33.000
It\'s not only that sexist violence
is not decreasing,...

00:30:33.040 --> 00:30:36.040
...but also the violent homicides
and femicides here...

00:30:36.080 --> 00:30:38.920
...in Mexico
are unfortunately increasing.

00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:40.960
Quite the contrary.

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.880
The femicide
in the State of Mexico last year...

00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.640
...has dropped by a 27 %
fortunately.

00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:51.360
I think we need to start...

00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:53.080
...considering
the number variations...

00:30:53.120 --> 00:30:56.880
...of the non-governmental
organizations, the authorities,...

00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:58.960
...all of them
have different numbers.

00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.440
What are your numbers
regarding femicides?

00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:02.960
I don\'t know at all...

00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.600
...where the non-governmental
numbers come from,...

00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:10.360
...and that is why I would never
dare to criticize them.

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:13.440
What I could tell you is where...

00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:16.280
...the numbers of this General
Attorney come from,...

00:31:16.320 --> 00:31:18.360
...and they come from
the investigation files.

00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.120
The latest numbers we have updated

00:31:21.320 --> 00:31:27.640
on May are 336 files since 2011,...

00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.520
...of which 169 have begun
a legal process,...

00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:35.800
...and we have 98 convictions.

00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.880
How many femicides?
-336.

00:31:39.800 --> 00:31:43.120
That means that,
according to the Attorney,...

00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:47.800
...in Mexico,
50 femicides take place every year.

00:31:47.840 --> 00:31:51.040
But according to non-governmental
organizations,...

00:31:51.080 --> 00:31:56.920
...there are 330 women dying
every year for being women.

00:31:57.360 --> 00:32:00.440
Maybe the number of murders...

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:03.720
...classified as femicides
have dropped,...

00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:08.240
...but the truth is the number
of murders of women have increased.

00:32:08.600 --> 00:32:11.520
Out of all the women who have
disappeared at this moment,...

00:32:11.560 --> 00:32:13.280
...how many of them
will appear dead?

00:32:13.320 --> 00:32:18.640
Eh, now I don\'t bring
specifically the number,...

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:20.480
...but fortunately they are a few.

00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:22.320
A few, how many, more or less?
-I don\'t remember.

00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:23.480
Tens?
-No.

00:32:23.600 --> 00:32:27.000
Ten, 20 every year? 40?
-I don\'t know, I don\'t remember.

00:32:27.560 --> 00:32:29.360
Do you bring the number, baby?

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.240
No, I\'ll give you soon.
-Please.

00:32:31.280 --> 00:32:34.680
It\'s to know
what you consider a few.

00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.320
Look, I think that,
in that sense,...

00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:40.720
...the question is a bit tricky.
-Yes.

00:32:40.760 --> 00:32:43.720
Because one is too many, right?

00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:46.440
From a human point of view,
isn\'t it?

00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.160
That\'s what I\'m telling you,...

00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.800
...anytime one has disappeared,...

00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:55.160
...that\'s enough for you to worry.

00:32:57.360 --> 00:32:59.880
But what\'s the point
of that worry...

00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:01.720
...if those women do not appear?

00:33:04.760 --> 00:33:09.400
The situation is not worrying,
but alarming.

00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.840
According to the authorities,...

00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:15.840
...around 200 women disappear
every year,...

00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:18.040
...but according
to civil organizations,...

00:33:18.080 --> 00:33:20.600
...around 1,300 women disappear.

00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:53.280
You are looking for your sister.
-Yes.

00:33:53.600 --> 00:33:57.320
Since January 30th 2017,...

00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:02.080
...she was left at a stop called
Bulevar Ojo de Agua to take a bus.

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.320
She didn\'t come
and on Tuesday we found out...

00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:08.120
...she was not there,...

00:34:08.160 --> 00:34:10.480
...and then we started her search.

00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:14.480
The last time anyone saw her
was waiting for the bus.

00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:15.560
And who saw her?

00:34:16.080 --> 00:34:17.240
Her family.

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.680
Has she got a family?
-Yes, a three-year-old boy.

00:34:21.720 --> 00:34:24.000
I see. And has she got a partner?
-Exactly.

00:34:24.040 --> 00:34:25.880
And were they at the stop
to say goodbye?

00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:26.960
Yes.

00:34:27.040 --> 00:34:29.600
Izela, how old is your sister?
-33.

00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:33.120
Did she ever show symptoms
of wanting to leave?

00:34:33.520 --> 00:34:37.280
No, because she had dreams,...

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:39.480
...she wanted to finish
her career,...

00:34:39.520 --> 00:34:41.360
...to keep on working,...

00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:44.280
...her love and adoration
was her son,...

00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:48.080
...she was always the most happy
and the most noble too.

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.720
Those kind of notes,
as you call them,...

00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:55.560
...are something you do
as a woman disappear.

00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:56.760
Yes.

00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.160
Do you wear
all this stuff with you, Izela?

00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:03.600
I always bring this.

00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:06.280
Why do you bring it?

00:35:16.160 --> 00:35:18.040
So I always remember her,...

00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:23.000
...I have to say
I\'m going to find her.

00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:34.960
Did you need stop working because
you spend all day doing this?

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:36.880
Yes, because in the end,...

00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:38.320
...you have to turn
to institutions,...

00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:41.200
...and there are times
when you have to be there all day.

00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:42.640
Somehow...

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.840
Izela...

00:35:49.240 --> 00:35:51.400
Do you want to stop?
-No.

00:35:51.440 --> 00:36:00.160
It\'s practically leaving your life
aside so as to find her,...

00:36:02.160 --> 00:36:07.480
...because the first week I said:
\"How could I sleep?,...

00:36:08.640 --> 00:36:11.240
...and how could I eat
if I don\'t know where she is?\"

00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:13.920
I don\'t know,...

00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:17.120
...I don\'t know if she\'s eating,...

00:36:17.160 --> 00:36:18.480
...I don\'t know how she is.

00:36:20.600 --> 00:36:24.560
Well, all my family are tired,
exhausted,...

00:36:24.600 --> 00:36:27.480
...and I said:
\"No, I cannot sleep.\"

00:36:27.560 --> 00:36:30.640
And I left many things...

00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:33.680
...and I don\'t regret it,...

00:36:34.720 --> 00:36:36.000
...because she\'s my sister.

00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:42.320
Do you know what surprises me?

00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:43.840
That you don\'t feel the support...

00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.840
...and the comfort
the institutions should give you.

00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.560
Yes, because we\'re the ones
performing the investigation,...

00:36:49.600 --> 00:36:52.120
...the family.

00:36:52.160 --> 00:36:54.920
And the truth is that institutions
cannot cope,...

00:36:55.160 --> 00:36:57.760
...they don\'t have the human
nor economic resources.

00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:02.480
Do you think it\'s due to lack
of resources or interest?

00:37:02.520 --> 00:37:03.760
Both.

00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:08.680
And just after my sister
disappeared,...

00:37:08.720 --> 00:37:10.520
...I went to an institution...

00:37:10.560 --> 00:37:15.040
...and they practically told me
we were guilty,...

00:37:15.080 --> 00:37:17.120
...that she left on her own.

00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:18.880
And one always thinks the worst,...

00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:20.600
...and goes looking
in the worst places.

00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:24.240
Yes, I went to look for her
even to the landfills.

00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:28.480
To the landfills?
-Or channels,...

00:37:28.600 --> 00:37:31.720
...or being informed every time
they find a body.

00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:34.240
In the Semefos.

00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:38.040
The Semefos are the morgues.
-Exactly.

00:37:38.080 --> 00:37:41.360
In other words,
you see the bodies...

00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:43.840
...and sometimes
they are unrecognizable.

00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.200
And what about looking
for her in landfills?

00:37:46.240 --> 00:37:50.360
Yes, because
they leave them there,...

00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:53.240
...or that is where
many women are found.

00:37:53.720 --> 00:37:56.440
You can disappear
and nothing happens.

00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:59.520
When the time passes by,
they tell you:

00:37:59.560 --> 00:38:02.880
\"There is a high chance
she is not alive\",...

00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:06.160
...and you wonder where is she.

00:38:07.120 --> 00:38:09.400
In other words,
where are all those women?

00:38:16.720 --> 00:38:19.320
Many of those women
are kidnapped,...

00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.600
...abducted and forced
into prostitution.

00:38:22.680 --> 00:38:27.280
Around 500,000 women
are forced into prostitution...

00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:28.800
...in Mexico.

00:38:39.680 --> 00:38:42.520
Just a few are lucky...

00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:47.240
...and find a woman on their way
to rescue them from that hell.

00:38:53.080 --> 00:38:55.320
It\'s really alarming
the situation...

00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:58.440
...of sexual exploitation
of women in Mexico?

00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.880
According to the Foundation
of France,...

00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.080
...they report 500,000 women...

00:39:03.120 --> 00:39:05.440
...are in prostitution,...

00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:08.960
...and we calculate
that 70,000 are minors...

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...according to the National DIF.

00:39:12.200 --> 00:39:16.440
We cannot allow
that mafias control...

00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:18.960
...a trade in human beings,...

00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.240
...since that\'s what it is,...

00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:25.840
...the trade of human beings
to sexually exploit them...

00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:29.200
...for a few pseudo-businessmen.

00:39:29.240 --> 00:39:32.720
And the bastards
buying those girls,...

00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:34.240
...what do they have in mind?

00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:39.040
Don\'t they go home and see
their girls, sisters or mothers?

00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:40.120
For God\'s sake!

00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:42.640
What do they have in mind...

00:39:42.680 --> 00:39:45.680
...those people who keep
this market growing?

00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:51.720
There are girls that have to be
in La Merced by day and by night.

00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.600
They are working days of 16, 18...

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...or even 20 hours,
according to testimonies.

00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.240
But their bodies show it.
-They are girls...

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.840
...that have disappeared
from home,...

00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:04.000
...and no one knew anything about
them from one day to the next.

00:40:04.040 --> 00:40:07.760
That\'s it, we cannot even imagine
how it is for a mother...

00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.080
...whose girl disappeared,...

00:40:10.120 --> 00:40:17.960
...we cannot even think of the
empty dish on the table at night.

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:22.120
Seeing the empty bed
with no one and go to bed.

00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:24.360
How do you sleep as a mother?

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.960
The problem is how many
of those governors,...

00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:32.160
...how many of those politicians
are the first customers.

00:40:32.200 --> 00:40:34.200
And what is wrong
in their sad minds?

00:40:34.240 --> 00:40:37.160
They see them
as a prostitutes,...

00:40:37.200 --> 00:40:38.920
...not as daughters,...

00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:42.000
...as a girl who disappeared
from home...

00:40:42.040 --> 00:40:45.400
...and they are exploiting,
raping now.

00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.360
I see it as really serious
not seeing a person,...

00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:52.640
...a woman, a girl,
as a valuable human being,...

00:40:52.680 --> 00:40:54.040
...with dreams, with goals,...

00:40:54.080 --> 00:40:56.280
...with projects; and seeing her...

00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.320
...only as an object
one can buy and sell.

00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:05.160
And others selling them...

00:41:05.200 --> 00:41:06.680
...do not buy them,...

00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:11.720
...but kidnap them.
They are called the pimps.

00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:13.160
The cheat on them,...

00:41:13.240 --> 00:41:15.520
...they make them fall in love,...

00:41:15.560 --> 00:41:18.000
...and then force them
to prostitution.

00:41:23.640 --> 00:41:25.560
What does it mean to be a pimp?

00:41:25.640 --> 00:41:28.440
The current world is dealer.

00:41:28.520 --> 00:41:33.120
Pimp is the person
that receives a benefit...

00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:38.440
...from any person working
in prostitution.

00:41:38.520 --> 00:41:39.680
Through seduction,...

00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:42.880
...they can make them believe
he wants to marry her,...

00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:44.680
...he talks to her parents,
siblings,...

00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:47.640
...he is introduced to the family
and he brings her to Mexico City...

00:41:47.680 --> 00:41:50.080
...and here
she starts working as usual.

00:41:50.120 --> 00:41:51.600
They can pretend
they fall in love,...

00:41:51.640 --> 00:41:53.240
...and the only thing they do...

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:56.240
...is make them believe
they are worth everything.

00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.320
Let\'s say that they,
if they have a period,...

00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:02.080
...women usually
want to be resting.

00:42:02.120 --> 00:42:03.320
They want to be quiet,...

00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:08.000
...and in the case
of the workers we had,...

00:42:08.040 --> 00:42:12.920
...you work,
you use a sponge, or a tampon...

00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.520
...or something like that,
but you work.

00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:17.560
One of the workers
we had got pregnant,...

00:42:17.600 --> 00:42:19.360
...and she was threatened
with her son:

00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:21.880
\"You don\'t work,
then you will not see your son,...

00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:23.080
...he\'ll be taken from you.\"

00:42:23.160 --> 00:42:28.480
Have you been a pimp?
-I was, about 17 years ago.

00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:31.800
You have served a sentence
for that crime.

00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:34.120
For violation, kidnapping,
attempted corruption,...

00:42:34.160 --> 00:42:38.480
...criminal association,
procuring and corruption of minors.

00:42:38.520 --> 00:42:42.080
Did you commit all of those crimes
you were accused of?

00:42:43.560 --> 00:42:44.720
Yes.

00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:48.120
But Jesus, I see you with certain
smile in your face...

00:42:48.160 --> 00:42:51.480
...when you tell me this.
-Yes, it\'s something that...

00:42:51.560 --> 00:42:52.560
Why?

00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:58.480
That moment, when I did it,...

00:42:58.520 --> 00:43:01.720
...it isn\'t a smile
of satisfaction,...

00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:04.720
...it\'s like nerves
of the moment...

00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:08.160
...I\'m talking about it
because people do not know...

00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:09.920
...what\'s behind human trafficking.

00:43:10.040 --> 00:43:12.160
And what\'s behind
human trafficking?

00:43:12.200 --> 00:43:14.440
There are rapes, lies,...

00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:19.280
...abductions, there are people
being mistreated,...

00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:22.160
...there are people who believe
in all that other people tell them.

00:43:22.200 --> 00:43:25.160
Are there murders?
-There are homicides, yes.

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:30.240
At that moment, I couldn\'t
understand the smile you have,...

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.160
...it was impossible
to understand the reason.

00:43:32.200 --> 00:43:35.680
Jesús, the women
are really so manipulated?

00:43:35.720 --> 00:43:39.160
I think it has to do with feelings.

00:43:39.200 --> 00:43:41.880
Most of times, woman have...

00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:46.200
They put their hearts
and souls into that.

00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:48.560
I mean, she puts her heart,
she loves...

00:43:48.600 --> 00:43:50.600
...and when she loves,
she does it completely...

00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:52.320
...and she could do anything...

00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:57.000
...so as to show love to another
person, men, in this case.

00:43:57.080 --> 00:43:58.480
And men? What about it?

00:43:58.560 --> 00:44:00.080
Don\'t they love and feel or what?

00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:01.200
Yes, we do feel,...

00:44:01.240 --> 00:44:04.560
...but when something illegal
is being done,...

00:44:04.600 --> 00:44:06.520
...one has no heart, do they?

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:09.160
Lies made me do...

00:44:09.720 --> 00:44:13.160
...unforgivable things,...

00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.360
...make a girl work,...

00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:20.160
...allowing minors
to work for us,...

00:44:20.200 --> 00:44:23.400
...enriching myself illegally...

00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:25.960
...at the expense
of other people\'s pain,...

00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:30.240
...knowing that a girl
that could be at home,...

00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:33.560
was living a hell by my side.

00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:39.560
Sometimes it\'s hard to admit
all that I did,...

00:44:39.600 --> 00:44:44.120
...to accept it before
my family,...

00:44:44.200 --> 00:44:47.480
...because I really think
my family remains marked forever.

00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:51.680
Let\'s only say I don\'t see
my daughters now,...

00:44:51.720 --> 00:44:55.840
...and I don\'t see them
because the mother,...

00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:57.120
...with good reason,...

00:44:57.160 --> 00:44:59.400
...thought I was going
the same with my daughters...

00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.160
...as I did with the other girls.

00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:04.120
Then she told me: \"You will not
see my daughters again.\"

00:45:21.120 --> 00:45:22.920
The type of life I had,...

00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:26.800
...that\'s the most painful thing
because...

00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:34.720
Today it\'s hard to fit
in the society.

00:45:35.560 --> 00:45:39.160
What I did to the girls,
I paid in jail.

00:45:39.200 --> 00:45:41.480
Maybe 5 % not 100 %

00:45:41.520 --> 00:45:42.720
5 %

00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:44.280
If you hadn\'t
passed through that,...

00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.720
...would you have never known
what those women felt?

00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:51.280
I don\'t think so,
I think my feelings,...

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:54.400
...the way I see life,
would have been much worse.

00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:56.120
And do you think
that the rest of people,...

00:45:56.160 --> 00:46:00.520
...the rest of society sees
the pimp as an important figure?

00:46:00.600 --> 00:46:04.720
No, I think that society
takes the pimp as a dandy,...

00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:08.480
...a person that, maybe,
a handsome man.

00:46:08.520 --> 00:46:09.560
Currently.

00:46:10.160 --> 00:46:11.760
A handsome man?
Not an extortionist?

00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:14.760
Not an extortionist,
not a kidnapper, not a rapist,...

00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.200
...not a dishonest person,
not a liar.

00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:18.400
A handsome man.
-Yes.

00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:24.960
And that is where the root
of the problem lies,...

00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.800
...that part of society
is so confused...

00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:30.000
...that it sees the pimp
as a handsome man.

00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:33.080
The male chauvinism that hurts...

00:46:33.120 --> 00:46:35.880
...and kills.

00:47:16.200 --> 00:47:18.200
Pamela, I imagine that,
five years ago,...

00:47:18.240 --> 00:47:19.560
...having lunch like this,

00:47:19.600 --> 00:47:21.560
quietly in the street, on a bench,
was inconceivable to you.

00:47:21.640 --> 00:47:24.080
Yes, exactly,
and specially having lunch,...

00:47:24.120 --> 00:47:27.320
...because I didn\'t really eat,
I didn\'t eat at all all day.

00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:31.560
Did you spend all day working?
-Almost 20 hours every day.

00:47:31.600 --> 00:47:37.440
Were you exploited sexually?
-Yes, I was being for three years.

00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.720
How was it? Can you tell me?
-I met a person,...

00:47:41.520 --> 00:47:43.560
...he treated me really well.
-A man?

00:47:43.640 --> 00:47:47.120
Yes, a man. I was living with him
for three months.

00:47:47.160 --> 00:47:50.320
He told me at home that
I had to prostitute myself,...

00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.880
...I told him no, he hit me...

00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:56.000
...and gave me the clothes
I should wear,...

00:47:56.040 --> 00:47:57.760
...he showed me
what I had to get paid,...

00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:00.520
...how long I had to last
in the room.

00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:03.880
And how long was that?
-I could spend five minutes.

00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:06.480
Five minutes with every man?
-Uh-huh, in the room.

00:48:06.520 --> 00:48:08.280
How many men
did he force you to be with?

00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:11.600
Around 30, 50 more or less.

00:48:11.640 --> 00:48:14.080
That day I was with 30 men.

00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:16.480
The first day he forced you
to be with 30 men?

00:48:16.520 --> 00:48:20.760
Yes, with 30 men.
I felt really dirty,...

00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:23.560
...I felt like rubbish
in that moment.

00:48:23.640 --> 00:48:26.000
I don\'t know, I mean,
something broke in me.

00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:32.040
Pamela...

00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:38.680
And that\'s all, right?

00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:40.920
He picked me up by night...

00:48:42.160 --> 00:48:43.960
...and he told me:

00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:50.200
\"Darling, I love you so much,
you did a good job,...

00:48:50.240 --> 00:48:52.720
...look how much money you got.\"

00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:56.240
And I just remained
quiet crying,...

00:48:56.280 --> 00:49:00.120
...I got home with him
and I took a bath,...

00:49:00.160 --> 00:49:03.280
...I spent a long time
there in the water.

00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:05.200
He told me: \"No, come in\"

00:49:05.240 --> 00:49:07.840
And he wanted me to have
relationships with him.

00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.400
And I told him:
\"No, I\'m not feeling well,...

00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:11.480
...I feel myself in pain.\"

00:49:11.520 --> 00:49:13.200
\"I don\'t want that,
I want to sleep.\"

00:49:13.240 --> 00:49:15.600
And he tells me:
\"You have lost the desire...

00:49:15.640 --> 00:49:16.920
...because you were
with so many men.\"

00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:19.240
\"Don\'t you want to be with me?\"
As I refused,...

00:49:20.120 --> 00:49:22.280
...he started punching me,
he kicked me,...

00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:24.880
...he kicked me off the bed.

00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:26.240
I was covered with blood,...

00:49:27.160 --> 00:49:29.640
...he put me in the bed
and had relationships with me.

00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.000
Did he rape you?
-Yes. The three years,...

00:49:34.040 --> 00:49:39.640
...I was with him, I had two
abortions owing to the hits.

00:49:44.680 --> 00:49:49.200
Doctors and nurses asked him,...

00:49:49.240 --> 00:49:52.280
...the dealer:
\"Hey, what happened to her?\"

00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:54.640
\"It\'s just that she\'s stupid
and fell off the stairs...

00:49:54.680 --> 00:49:56.400
...and that\'s why she\'s like that.\"

00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:58.200
They didn\'t ask me
at any time,...

00:49:58.240 --> 00:50:00.480
...at any time if they should take
me away from that person,...

00:50:00.520 --> 00:50:02.320
...at no time
they paid attention to me.

00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:06.120
One day I was at home
with him and his daughters,...

00:50:06.160 --> 00:50:09.120
he told me: \"You know my daughters
are beautiful, aren\'t they?\"

00:50:09.160 --> 00:50:10.400
\"Yes, they are beautiful.\"

00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:13.440
And he tells me: \"Imagine how much
am I going to earn with them...

00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:15.240
...when they are 12 or 15 years.\"

00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:17.960
How could it be possible
that you consider earning money...

00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:22.840
...with your own blood,
your own girls? No?

00:50:23.080 --> 00:50:27.560
And I don\'t know why, I mean,
I never believed in God,...

00:50:27.600 --> 00:50:33.000
...but in that moment I begged,
I told him: \"Oh, my God, help me.\"

00:50:33.040 --> 00:50:35.720
In fact, I don\'t know who,
I\'m really thankful.

00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:37.440
It was an anonymous report,...

00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:41.960
...the Attorney General Office
were there, to La Merced,...

00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:43.880
...went for me and for him.

00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:47.560
When I was rescued,
I couldn\'t sleep for a month,...

00:50:47.600 --> 00:50:50.600
...owing to nightmares, fearing
I was going to be captured,...

00:50:50.640 --> 00:50:53.760
...they were going to find me, they
were going to look for my family.

00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:55.720
I was really afraid of that.

00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:59.120
And I remembered the times
I was at the hospital, beaten...

00:50:59.160 --> 00:51:03.120
...and without any help
from doctors or nurses.

00:51:03.160 --> 00:51:05.280
Then I decided to study nursing,...

00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:08.560
...and on June the 30th
of this year...

00:51:08.600 --> 00:51:13.280
...I graduated from college.
-Congratulations. I\'m really glad.

00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:17.800
Yes. I want to support
those people that come beaten,...

00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:25.200
...mistreated and don\'t have
the strength or the chance...

00:51:25.240 --> 00:51:28.120
...to say what they\'re going
through because of fear.

00:51:28.720 --> 00:51:30.120
I want to be that person.

00:51:32.240 --> 00:51:35.640
Being that person
she was not allowed to be,...

00:51:35.680 --> 00:51:37.920
...being a woman with a name,...

00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.000
...and not statistic.