Guanajuato, Mexico: More than 25 years in prison for having an abortion
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
- “No more women dead from secret abortions” — Jezebel photo
[Translation of a guest editorial from the Spanish publication La Nueva Tribuna for August 21. The writer is a Mexican political scientist.]
By César Morales Oyarvide
Guanajuato is a state in central Mexico, in the region known as El Bajío. Famous as the birthplace of independence – it was in the small town of Dolores that the armed struggle against the crown began – it has also been the birthplace of several movements of a reactionary nature, like sinarquismo, a proto-fascist political movement which developed from the cristero rebellion (1) and that was the enemy of the government that resulted from the Mexican revolution. (more…)