“Sand women? It is a play by playwright Humberto Robles. The proposal is to expose the testimony of several women who speak of the horror and torture that constitutes the crisis of femicide that occurs in real life in Ciudad Juárez, a city in Mexico. “Sand women, recently made statements in the form of a denunciation, with a deep human feeling. The initiative seeks to support the movement of relatives of murdered women.
Humberto Robles is a writer, screenwriter and human rights activist in Mexico. In 2007, the press wrote of him: “Currently, he is perhaps one of the most represented Mexican playwrights in the theaters of the Hispanic American community. “that he “is one of the authors who brings the most promises to contemporary theatrical creation in Mexico, having also created texts very committed to the dissemination of the harsh living conditions of women in their country”.
- In her play “Mulheres de Areia”.
- She opens the scene by talking about the multiple murders and disappearances of Mexican citizens through the speeches of four women: a mother.
- A cousin.
- A sister and a murdered young woman who tell the stories of Natalia.
- Micaela.
- Lilia Alejandra and Eréndira.
- All victims of femicide.
- So common in Ciudad Juárez.
- These testimonies are intermingled with poetry and statistics.
- Figures that reveal the disinterest of the Mexican government to solve and end these crimes.
The total number of missing and murdered persons is daunting, the climate of violence continues to grow without taking steps to clarify cases against such high femicide data, this term refers to hate crimes and the murder of women simply because the victims are women, crimes of extreme seriousness, which occur in a context of discrimination and gender-based violence , against women and girls subjected to forced dehumanization.
“At first, the easiest way is to make a living person disappear. The goal is to make a dead man disappear. A corpse sinks, not a ghost. Why close the party to the living during the day, if the dead man comes every night to sit on the edge of the bed??. – Barret-
The vast majority of victims have similar characteristics: age ?, are young people and adolescents between the ages of 15 and 25 and the few financial resources at their disposal; from an early age these women have to look for living conditions, so usually the only way out is to look for work in factories or exporters.
The exporter is also a factory, but produces or manufactures products for export. Most of the orders that Mexican exporters receive go to the US. And companies are often branches of U. S. companies moving to Mexico for cheaper labor.
These young women work shifts of more than 12 hours, for a minimum wage and with very precarious working conditions, lacking rights to work, the right conditions, so the disappearance of a woman does not attract so much attention from the authorities. . It’s normal for you to quit your job. The scary thing is that almost every employee in this type of industry knows the case of a missing young woman.
More than 20 years have passed since the first disappearance was reported, the first documented femicide was that of Alma Chavira Farel, 13, whose body was found on January 23, 1993, after being sexually assaulted and strangled. horror and the symbol of pink crosses.
Where there is a disappearance, the relatives of the victims paint, place or bury pink crosses on a black background as a symbol of protest against femicides, but the authorities often erase or, somehow, disappear with the symbol of removing. denunciations, making them invisible to the population.
Popular demonstrations of repudiation of the events are also filled with pink crosses depicting family, friends and supporters of the cause, against the murder and disappearance of women in Ciudad Juarez. Walking through the streets carry crosses with messages in which they can read phrases like “femicide state”?Not one less?. On every bench, wall, empty space, they put crosses.
Impunity is present every time someone talks about femicide in Ciudad Juarez. The mismanagement, corruption and lack of importance of the Mexican authorities led the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to issue a historic sentence. However, to this day, the government has been unable to respond or deal with the kind of abuse and murder that continues to result in casualties every day.
For the families of victims of crime, recognition of crime is the first step in stopping this ordeal that we are all going through. Your voice is your main and only weapon.
“The twilight of disappearance bathes everything with the breeze of nostalgia. -Milan Kundera-