In 2018, the murder of Cuqui Adriana Bonetto, a trans woman, shocked Rincón. Her killer was sentenced to life imprisonment. The court treated the crime as femicide, not as transfemicide, something that organizations had demanded.
Dozens of news outlets reported as fact that the main suspect in Cecilia's femicide "identified as a woman".
It happened while she was working as a prostitute on Camino de Cintura, in the Province of Buenos Aires. A man viciously attacked her and threw her into a well.
The repression in Jujuy demonstrated that the violence of right-wing sectors today has one objective: indigenous peoples, workers, women and diverse groups.
Repressive incidents are on the rise, with women in Jujuy either as victims or as complainants. Whether at community road blockades or in the provincial capital, they resist and speak out.
From Escuela Presentes and with Abofem we are convening the Workshop on Journalism and Feminist Judicial Reform, aimed at communicators, students, lawyers and researchers from Argentina.
The struggle for those lands, after the massacre committed 11 years ago, was emblematic for the Paraguayan peasantry.
In La Quiaca, the only bilingual community kindergarten in the country operates: they teach in both Spanish and Quechua. The Jujuy government refuses to officially recognize it.
More than 5,000 people marched to protest violence and demand a law for historical reparations and the effective implementation of the employment quota. See Presentes' coverage.
The play "The hotel is a body. Transvestite/trans stories" is based on the experiences of three trans girls who lived in the Gondolín.
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