Posts Tagged ‘Mexico City’
Mexico City : City of Sex Workers
4:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Labor|mexico|sex|Women · 2 Comments
14 Jun 2007
Mexico City is clearly trying to become the most liberal city in Latin America. It legalized early term abortion and same-sex legal unions. They’ve even discussed legalizing euthanasia. Leftists senators are at it again with a plan to to legalize sex work in the capital. Juan Bustos, a legislator with the leftist party that holds a majority in the city assembly who presented the bill said:
This activity must be regulated, it can’t just take place without control, without health support for the users or the workers.
Via / MSNBC
Image Via / Bay Area Indy Media
Mexico City makes commuters read
12:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|literature|mexico · Comments Off
5 Jun 2007
There’s nothing like the Mexico City metro: hundreds of miles of sweaty commute, neon green seats and beggars and entertainers of all sorts. Idle time is often spent fending off gropers and the occasional organ grinder, but Mexico City’s local government is giving riders another way to while away the hours: reading.
250,000 editions of an anthology featuring Mexican writers such as Elena Poniatowska and Juan Villoro will be distributed throughout the city’s green line, the longest trajectory running from the north to the south of the huge metropolis. Metro users can pick up a book when they get on, read it during their trip, then return it before hopping off at their destination.
The program, called “Para leer de boleto” looks to make non-readers into readers,”encourage reading among those who occasionally read, and provide reading material to those who cannot afford books.” I wonder if train riders are really going to choose a literature anthology over sexy comic books or revista Alarma.
Via / Terra
Image: jornada.unam.mx
Mexico City Abortion At Risk
11:07 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Women · Comments Off
4 Jun 2007
It’s been just over a month since early term abortions were legalized in Mexico City and already the procedure is at risk of being repealed. Mexico’s Supreme Court said it will hear a legal challenge to the law legalizing abortion. In the meantime, the capital’s mayor promised hospitals would continue to perform abortions.
Via / SignonSanDiego
Image Via / BBC News
Abortion is legal in Mexico City
4:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Women · Comments Off
25 Apr 2007
A huge triumph for the left in Mexico, as was expected, Mexico City’s legislative assembly approved a bill to make abortion in the capital legal until 12 weeks of gestation. This makes Mexico the only country in Latin America except for Cuba to allow “abortion on demand”.
Following is a selection of images from around the web of the reactions to this landmark decision.
More images after the jump.
Mexico City set to approve legalization of abortion
6:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Women · Comments Off
24 Apr 2007
After months of heated debate and with all eyes in Mexico on the capital, it looks at this hour as if Mexico City will make the historic move to approve the legalization of abortion. Mexico City’s La Jornada reports that voting is currently 46 in favor and 20 against on the bill that would make abortion from the first to the 12th week of gestation legal in Mexico’s largest metropolis. It would also lessen the punishment for physicians who perform the procedure after the 12th week.
As about one hundred pro-life activists protested, held vigils and fasted outside the city’s Legislative Assembly offices, the Pope put out a statement saying he
“unites himself to the Church in Mexico and so many people of good will, concerned about the Federal District legislation that threatens the life of unborn children.”
Mexico City mayor won’t back down to activists
5:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|mexico|society|Women · Comments Off
20 Apr 2007
Last week we told you that Mexican television star Chespirito had joined forces with an anti-abortion organization called “Dénme Chance” (“Give me a Chance”) to try to force the genie of the women’s reproductive rights movement in Mexico City back into the bottle. That same organization has in turn published the cell phone number of the Mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, without his permission, urging anti-abortion activists to call him.
Chespirito wants abortion to stay illegal
5:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Controversia|mexico|Women · Comments Off
9 Apr 2007
For the past couple of weeks we’ve been telling you about the ongoing debate in Mexico City between city politicians and pro-life activists around a proposed bill to make abortion legal in Mexico’s capital. The debate has become hotter and hotter, and is now past the boiling point as Chespirito — a.k.a. Roberto Gómez Bolaños, the creator and star of legendary children’s show El Chavo del Ocho — a celebrity known for uniting Latinos all over the world has taken a step toward dividing Mexicans on this controversial topic.
Bolaños has joined pro-life activists to create television spots in which he recounts how his mother was told by doctors to terminate her pregnancy after an accident. In the spot, he goes on to say: “My mother told him, “Me? Have an abortion? Never.” That is to say, she defended life…my life. And thanks to her I’m here today.”
Artificial beaches for Mexico City
6:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|society · Comments Off
4 Apr 2007Every Semana Santa los chilangos (a mucha honra!) — residents of mega metropolis Mexico City – pack their bags en masse and set out on highways towards the more exotic locales of Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan, among others. For the entire week, one can walk down busy Paseo de la Reforma and see virtually no one. But what of those who can’t afford to leave town? Mexico City’s local government’s got a pseudobeach just for them:
More images after the jump.
Mexico City Mayor: “I won’t veto legalization of abortion”
12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Religion|Women · 1 Comment
30 Mar 2007
Just when you thought the abortion debate in Mexico City couldn’t get any hotter, Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon announced to pro-life activists who are demanding he stop legalization of abortion that he would not veto the bill once it comes to his office, and described the president of one pro-life organization as “fascist”:
“What you are asking me to do is to veto a bill that hasn’t even been approved yet and I’m not going to veto it. I’ve never vetoed any bill approved by the Legislative Assembly, and I’m not vetoing this one either,” he said.
Ebrard, who once again referred to Serrano Limón [president of Pro-Vida, pictured at left] as a person with a fascist nature…explained that he will respond to the request as he would with any other citizen and said “because I AM a very tolerant person.”
Mexico City politicans: Depenalize abortion
9:07 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Religion|Women · 2 Comments
19 Mar 2007
It’s still hard for me to believe that abortion is illegal in Mexico, but I guess that’s because my idea of Mexican society is linked to (relatively) liberal Mexico City. In the capital, the head of the PRD, Mexico’s leftist party, has announced that he will support a bill in the assembly to “depenalize” abortion:
The local PRD leader said that he calls on those who oppose the initiative and threaten to protest to take into account that this is a fair demand, as thousands of deaths occur each year because of botched abortions.He also said that the PRD doesn’t want a confrontation with anyone, on the contrary, “we respect all points of view, but we are going to create an awareness campaign for the public, because this really is a polemic topic and it needs wide reach.”
He said that’s why it’s the local assemblymembers’ job to establish a system for listening to different opinions and defining the process to approve depenalization of abortion in all cases, so that the woman be the one who decides if she will terminate her pregnancy or not, with a limit of 14 weeks of gestation.
As was to be expected, the Catholic church in Mexico City called the bill “an abominable crime” and vowed to oppose it and the PRD’s call to make the “abortion pill”, known as RU-486, legal.
Via / La Jornada
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