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I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events

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We're just up though.

Yesterday on International Women's Day an unprecedented number of women across Latin America

took to the streets, protesting against the rising violence against women.

Today millions more are expected to go on strike across Mexico and Argentina.

This is the first big social movement to form in Mexico during the presidency of Andrés

Manuel Lopez Oroador, a left-wing populist who took office in 2018.

It's in response to an increasing number of famicides, girls and women killed because of

their gender.

Today women plan to stay home from work or school to mark what's being called a day without

women.

The strike was planned in the wake of two especially brutal murders.

You don't necessarily need to have been abducted or to be fearing for your life to want

to protest in the streets of Mexico City.

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