“I felt outraged”: lawmaker Alessandra Rojo denounced sexual harassment in the streets of the CDMX

The deputy Alessandra Red From La Vega denounced that during a bike ride through the streets of the historic center of Mexico City, he was victim of sexual harassment.

This afternoon, the lawmaker made her complaint public via social networks, where she reported being the victim on July 18 of something that “happens daily to women in this country”, that is to say “they grabbed her buttocks “without your consent.

“Sunday, I was cycling in Madero Street in the center of CDMX; I was going slowly enough because there were a lot of people, when suddenly What happens to women everyday in this country happened they grabbed my butt“, He said.

She said that despite being surrounded by hundreds of passers-by, she felt lonely and paralyzed at the time.

“I was outraged, I was filled with rage and at the same time everything crossed my mind, yell at him, throw me at him or just stay with my anger and leave out of fear», He said.

He remembered that after a few moments he came to himself, came to his senses and shouted about the subject: “What’s wrong with you, why are you touching me”. He said he was finishing talking and getting off his bike when suddenly five other men approached the scene.

“To my surprise, the first touched the subject then the other, until the field was armed. I was stunned watching, I couldn’t believe it. I was about to do something, to defend myself (I don’t know how and how dangerous that would have been). But they were there ”.

The lawmaker said that at this point, people around came to see and ask what was going on, while the other subjects kept hitting the abuser.

“Shout and hit the guy: ‘don’t touch a woman anymore, we saw you. ‘ People around him started shouting because they couldn’t understand what was going on, “Forget it. “

He assured that in the midst of all the chaos, he had experienced various feelings. On the one hand, he felt relief, on the other, gratitude and fear for what was happening.

The legislator did not indicate whether after the fact she denounced the assailant or whether he accused the passer-by who helped her with physical assault.

Note that Alessandra Rojo defines herself as a feminist mother, posting permanently on her social networks against attacks against women and reporting cases of violence.

After two and a half years like local deputy to the Green Party Ecologist from Mexico (PVEM), Alessandra Rojo de la Vega announced his resignation at the political body on June 9. The news was startling, given that he competed for a federal council and PVEM was one of the big winners, in alliance with Morena and PT, during the Intermediate elections June 6.

However, for the now independent legislator, his “congruence” before the feminist struggle, the environment and animal welfare. This is what he said on Thursday in interviews with journalist Adela Micha:

“By congruence […] Being there no longer made me feel comfortable, it wasn’t something that kept me in peace “

According to De la Vega, the straw that broke the camel’s back was that the match used the pain of women to make election propaganda, highlighting the case of Ricardo Ponce, the “guru” of self-healing, accused of sex crimes in the state of Quintana Roo.

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