They attended the International Women’s Day March
For the sixth consecutive year, exiled Nicaraguan feminists united with Costa Rican women in a march, held in San Jose on March 8.
By Katherinie Estrada Tellez (Confidencial)
HAVANA TIMES – Exiled and migrant women, plus those banished by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, united in a march of “resistance” and “solidarity,” held in Costa Rica on March 8th, in commemoration of International Women’s Day.
The demonstrators, a key component of San Jose’s national march, issued an urgent call to the democratic governments of Latin America and the world to adopt conclusive measures to stop the Nicaraguan government repression.
Beginning at 4 pm, a diverse group of Nicaraguan women gathered at San Jose’s Central Park in response to a call from the group Nicaraguan Feminists Exiled in Costa Rica. The group is made up of women’s collectives and organizations, plus independent feminists residing in the country. This is the sixth year they’ve marched in Costa Rica, since all non-government demonstrations have been prohibited in Nicaragua since 2018, when a de facto police state was imposed there.
“We demand justice, and we persist in the struggle for our rights in the face of the escalation of state violence we’ve faced in Nicaragua since 2007, violence that intensified during the crisis of 2018. Marching in this country [Costa Rica] is an act of resistance,” declared Diana Herrera of the La Corriente Feminist Association, one of more than 200 women’s organizations shutter