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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 13 March 2020

MEXICO: Women’s protests compound López Obrador’s problems

It has not been a good week for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His government faces major challenges on multiple fronts. As if the scale of the public health threat posed by the global outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19), and the associated economic impact, compounded by the oil price war declared by Saudi Arabia and Russia, were not enough to wrestle with, the López Obrador administration has misjudged the public mood over gender violence and femicides. It alienated a natural ally in feminist organisations with its dismissive response. As such, the large march on International Women’s Day on 8 March, and a national women’s strike the following day, in which hundreds of thousands of Mexican women participated, looked directed, at least in part, at the López Obrador administration.

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