Mexican Women

NY Times: ‘It Was Not My Fault’: Women in Mexico Fight Back Against Violence - A new generation is demanding change, casting off the entrenched notion that women somehow provoke attacks against them. By Paulina Villegas and Elisabeth Malkin

Itan Flores was a young teenager when her first boyfriend imprisoned her for six weeks in a room furnished with just a mattress and a radio. He returned only to rape her, she said, often withholding food and water.

One out of every three women in Latin America has experienced sexual or physical violence, according to the United Nations...