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Mexican women knit hearts at memorial for murdered females
« on: August 25, 2019, 04:25:39 am »
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Mexican women knit hearts at memorial for murdered females

Amy Guthrie, Associated Press Updated 3:53 pm PDT, Saturday, August 24, 2019

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A dozen women spread across the grass of Alameda park in the capital Saturday knitting hearts for a memorial to murdered girls as Mexico grapples with endemic violence against females.

Hands worked quickly looping canary yellow, blood red and turquoise yarn. The women then strung the hearts together, with the flick of a knitting needle, and suspended the creations from a marble urn that commemorates a Mexican freedom fighter.

The hearts twirled in the wind next to images of young girls who have been slain. Votive candles burned below messages scribbled onto Post-it notes.

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