Rosa Margarita Ortiz Macías joins the list of women who want to make a change in Mexico by telling her story.
On June 8, Ortiz Macías was robbed, maltreated and sexually assaulted in a public bus in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
“I was raped, a gun was pointed to my head, I was beaten up,” she says in a video posted by her husband, former politician Adolfo Micalco Mendez. “I mean, this can’t be happening anymore.”
She continues, “My daughter thank God was locked in the bathroom.”
At beginning of the clip, the victim explains she decided to make her case public to encourage President Enrique Peña Nieto and Attorney General Arely Gómez González to finally put an end to the wave of femicide the country has been experiencing in the past couple of years.
“For the love of God, what’s going on in Mexico?” she cried in the footage. “For the love of God, enough is enough!”
Ortiz Macías then proceeds to exhort all women who have been physically or sexually assaulted to come forward and make a complaint.
“I call all women who have been have been an object of all this lack of security, all this injustice,” she declared. “For me, for the ones to come, because it’s enough, this has to stop.”
She added, “Please, Mr. President, do something.”
Last month, sexual assault victims Yakiri Rubio, Andrea Noel, and Gabriela Nava joined forces with Grupo de Acción por los Derechos Humanos A.C. and Change.org in the launch of a new campaign calld “No Te Calles” (Don’t be silenced).
“I was kidnapped, beaten, raped and almost murdered,” said Rubio in the video posted on the movement’s YouTube channel. “I defended myself and went to the authorities, but instead of helping me, they charged me with homicide. I spent three months in jail, unjustly.”
Watch Rosa Margarita Ortiz Macías' video below.
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