A memorial sculpture to the victims of femicide is to be erected outside the Torres Bodet Theater on Guadalajara’s Paseo Chapultepec.
Specifically, the monument will remember 20-year-old Alondra González Arias, who died in Tlajomulco after a brutal beating by her partner on March 10, 2017.
Although González obtained a protection order a month prior to her death, after she reported her partner’s increasing violence, it was never acted upon. She had just given birth to her second child when she was killed.
The Guadalajara city council, which administers the theater, conceded the space for the memorial statue following a request from Jalisco government Human Rights Undersecretary Fabiola Loya Hernández.
The government agency was obliged to respond to a resolution issued by the independent Jalisco Human Rights Commission (CEDH) after its investigation into the death of González.
The CEDH resolution demanded a public apology from state authorities for its negligence, in addition to some kind of memorial recognizing González and other femicide victims.
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