Women in Mexico rally against rampant domestic violence

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Dozens of women have demonstrated in front of Mexico's Interior Ministry in the capital to protest against domestic violence. Congresswomen and activists in Mexico City on Monday lay on the ground imitating a crime scene with chalk outlines around their bodies, while chanting "gender alert in the State of Mexico". The "gender alert"  was created in the city of Ciudad Juarez after reports of widespread violence against women. The initiative entails new funds to strengthen protection and help for the victims. The protesers called for the setting up of the "gender alert" mechanism in a

Mexican Mayor Says Women Should Be Watching Soap Operas, Not The News

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The mayor of the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua is taking heat for urging a crowd of women to watch soap operas instead of the news during a speech delivered Sunday. During an event to mark the Day of the Domestic Worker, Javier Garfio Pacheco of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party led a raffle for a plasma-screen television and went on to praise them, saying they're the best units for watching soap operas -- or “telenovelas” -- during breaks from work. “No news -- because the news isn’t so good,” Garfio Pacheco said in the speech, while shaking his finger at a