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First-hand accounts of events that have shaped our world. I'm Mike Lanchin.

Today we're going back to the mid-2000s when disability campaigners in Mexico were stepping up their efforts to secure changes in laws and attitudes in their country.

I've been hearing from the disability activist who set up the first organisation in Mexico for women with disabilities. Her name is

Marienge Garcia Ramos.

So for the past 21 years of my life I've been a woman with disability, a physical disability.

Mariannekel is now 35 years old and she's become one of Mexico's leading disability rights campaigners.

When I was around 13, almost 14 years old.

I was like a regular kid. I used to walk and dance and and one

Sunday out of nowhere I had a really big pain on my back and it turned out that I had like this really weird

syndrome around my around my spine within my my veins my arteries and it's just a syndrome that was not genetic. So because of that I had to use

a wheelchair for the rest of my life so far.

And presumably, I mean without making it sound simple it changed your life it has changed your life.

Yeah and you know what it changed for two reasons the first one was that yeah I wasn't physically able to do things on my own and I wasn't

physically able to do what I love but the other thing was and I think this is the

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