Dozens of women gathered in the Sonoran capital Hermosillo Monday night for a vigil honoring victims of gender-based violence in the state and across Mexico.
Photos of women and girls killed in Sonora were carefully displayed on the steps in front of the State Attorney’s Office, surrounded by candles, crosses and flowers on Día de Muertos, or Day of Dead.
"In Mexico, every day is Día de Muertas," day of the dead for women, a protester tells those gathered. More than 2,500 women have been killed in Mexico so far this year, according to federal data.
"Today, we remember them with great respect and great pain: the little girl Itzel Nohemí. Raquel Padilla," the protesters read off a long list of names of some of those women and girls in Sonora. "And all of those whose names we don't know."
These women say they are protesters standing up for each other, and for all of those who are no longer with them, and demanding authorities take action to stop what they call a crisis of violence against women in Sonora and across Mexico.
