Home World In Mexico, Songs for Women who Kill Their Abusers
World

In Mexico, Songs for Women who Kill Their Abusers

By Linda
0
69
Enlarge this image

Singer Vivir Quintana perform during a showcase at Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros on May 27, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption

Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images

Singer Vivir Quintana perform during a showcase at Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros on May 27, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images

By some estimates, some 90% of murders in Mexico go unpunished. But when a woman in Mexico kills an abusive partner, many of them do end up in jail convicted of “excessive use of legitimate force”. Mexican singer-songwriter Vivir Quintana started looking into the issue and found compelling, tragic tales. We speak to Quintana about her new album which tells the stories of some of these women.

Sponsor Message

Linda
Previous articleA family in Indian-administered Kashmir fears being split apart after militant attack
Next articleSouth Africa’s president is praised for staying calm during Trump’s Oval Office ambush

RELATED ARTICLES

World

China Works to Dominate in AI and EV

Kevin - 0
Enlarge this image A data worker tags location and navigation information, data that is being used to train a self-driving car application that uses artificial intelligence. Aowen Cao/NPR hide caption toggle caption Aowen Cao/NPR A data worker tags location and navigation information, data that is being used to train a self-driving car application that uses
Read more
World

How the Irish band Kneecap went from rising hip-hop group to global lightning rod

Todd - 0
Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap during day four of Glastonbury festival. Leon Neal/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe LONDON - When Kneecap performed at Glastonbury music festival this year — a performance that the British Prime Minister opposed before the band even took the
Read more
World

Rescuers search for survivors after ferry sinking near Bali, Indonesia

Linda - 0
In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers search for victims after a ferry enroute for the resort island of Bali sank off Ketapang, East Java, Indonesia on Thursday. BASARNAS/AP/BASARNAS via AP hide caption toggle caption BASARNAS/AP/BASARNAS via AP JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers were searching Thursday for 32 people
Read more
World

Haiti’s gangs have ‘near-total control’ of the capital, U.N. says

Linda - 0
Security guards stand watch as Haiti's Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, center, talks with the Mexico's Charge d'Affaires Jesus Cisneros after attending an event marking one year since the start of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption toggle caption Odelyn Joseph/AP UNITED NATIONS — Haiti's gangs have
Read more

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Must Read

China Works to Dominate in AI and EV

World Kevin - 0
Enlarge this image A data worker tags location and navigation information, data that is being used to train a self-driving car application that uses artificial intelligence. Aowen Cao/NPR hide caption toggle caption Aowen Cao/NPR A data worker tags location and navigation information, data that is being used to train a self-driving car application that uses
Read more

How the Irish band Kneecap went from rising hip-hop group to global lightning rod

World Todd - 0
Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap during day four of Glastonbury festival. Leon Neal/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe LONDON - When Kneecap performed at Glastonbury music festival this year — a performance that the British Prime Minister opposed before the band even took the
Read more

Rescuers search for survivors after ferry sinking near Bali, Indonesia

World Linda - 0
In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers search for victims after a ferry enroute for the resort island of Bali sank off Ketapang, East Java, Indonesia on Thursday. BASARNAS/AP/BASARNAS via AP hide caption toggle caption BASARNAS/AP/BASARNAS via AP JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers were searching Thursday for 32 people
Read more

Haiti’s gangs have ‘near-total control’ of the capital, U.N. says

World Linda - 0
Security guards stand watch as Haiti's Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, center, talks with the Mexico's Charge d'Affaires Jesus Cisneros after attending an event marking one year since the start of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption toggle caption Odelyn Joseph/AP UNITED NATIONS — Haiti's gangs have
Read more

Saving history one story at a time

World Derek - 0
Enlarge this image The memorial of the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, 11 April 2015. On 11 April 1945, US troops arrived at the camp which held 21,000 prisoners. Sebastian Kahnert/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sebastian Kahnert/Getty Images The memorial of the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, 11 April 2015.
Read more

A coffee break in the United States and elsewhere is a short rest period granted to employees in business and industry. An afternoon coffee break, or afternoon tea, often occurs as well.

0080-655-238-69

[email protected]

CA50932 Pasadena

Latest articles

World

A Swiss village is buried after a glacier collapses in the Alps

Kevin - 0
The village of Blatten, in a valley below the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, was destroyed Wednesday by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed. A local river is now blocked and forming a lake that is flooding buildings that remain, authorities said. ALEXANDRE AGRUSTI/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle
Read more
World

Cartel violence in Sinaloa, Mexico, leaves 20 dead, including 4 decapitated bodies

Linda - 0
National Guards patrol the streets in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico in October 2024 ‎/AP hide caption toggle caption ‎/AP MEXICO CITY — Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state on Monday, part of a surge of cartel violence that killed 20 people in less than
Read more
World

Emaciated after 5 years in prison, Belarusian dissident Tsikhanouski vows to fight on

Kevin - 0
Syarhei Tsikhanouski, a Belarusian opposition activist released from a prison by Belarusian authorities, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, June 22, 2025. Mindaugas Kulbis/AP hide caption toggle caption Mindaugas Kulbis/AP VILNIUS, Lithuania — Siarhei Tsikhanouski is almost unrecognizable. Belarus' key opposition figure, imprisoned in 2020 and unexpectedly released on
Read more

Popular Categories