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Women demand legal abortions

Dressed mainly in black, and wearing the green bandanas that have become the symbol of the pro-choice movement in Latin America, some 500 women marched in downtown Guadalajara on September 28 to mark International Safe Abortion Day.


Feminists stage anti-Grito

Around 200 women belonging to feminist activist groups stormed Guadalajara’s Rotunda of Illustrious Citizens Wednesday in a protest they described as an “anti-Grito,” to draw attention to Mexico’s disturbingly high incidence of gender-based violence.

Periferico stations take shape

The first of 46 “stations” are going up in the “Mi Macro Periférico” project that will see the entire central divider of the 41.5-kilometer Guadalajara ring road converted into a bus lane.