Drug War Bloodshed: Mexico’s War on Drugs Leads to Violence Against Women

Mexico’s War on Drugs Leads to Violence Against Women: "Marcela Lagarde, a Mexican academic who is considered one of Latin America’s leading feminist activists, said in an interview with Efe that the war on drugs being waged by President Felipe Calderon has led to more violence against women in Mexico.

“Everything that is happening favors violence against women,” Lagarde told Efe Thursday in Madrid, adding that the Mexican leader’s strategy “cultivates a very violent culture” and “establishes an ideology of violence, of defeat, of war. That’s a very macho culture, very misogynist, and we women are left defenseless,” Lagarde said."