Bolivia: how many more dead women are needed for us to change?

With cases of women killed piling up, Bolivian society finds itself at a crucial turning point: to change and leave aside its pernicious ways, or to turn a blind eye and consider Andrea yet another statistical datum of femicide.Português.

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¿Do you remember Sophia Calvo Aponte? Possibly, your answer is no. Certainly her family does, and keeps her memory alive. It was Sophia who, in August 2014, assembled approximately 4.000 people in the atrium of the San Lorenzo cathedral in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in demand of peace.

Sophia Calvo Aponte was another victim of feminicidio (femicide). Her loss prompted a huge rally in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, attended by civil society and the media. And yet, within a few months, she was all but forgotten, falling into oblivion along with many other women who have gone through a similar horrific fate.