On September 28, still shocked by the discovery in Florencio Varela, of the tortured, abused and dismembered bodies of the three girls from La Matanza, we published an article about gender violence, femicides, narco-femicides, expressive violence, which asked “sir, madam, do not be indifferent…”, as we all shout in the mobilizations that we do for each of the our daughters, sisters, mothers, neighbors, friends murdered.
On October 9, our colleagues from Pan y Rosas Bahía Blanca published about the double femicide that occurred the day before, in which Adriana Velázquez and her daughter Mariana Bustos were burned to death. The note still maintains, at the foot of the page, the phrase “in development”, as is usually done in newsrooms when it is necessary to communicate quickly, while all the information regarding an urgent fact is still being investigated.
On October 13, I published Double femicide: hate speech legitimizes acts of hate. Will it be necessary to continue repeating it?, dismayed by the double femicide perpetrated by Pablo Laurta against the mother and grandmother of his little son, the day before. There I made a horrific account: from September 24, when the bodies of Brenda, Lara and Morena had been found in Florencio Varela until the day before my article was published, 15 femicides had been committed. Lives skewed by misogynistic violence in just 18 days.
On Thursday, October 16, Myriam Bregman asks me to publish some graphic plates on her social networks that summarize that article. I tell you that we review the horror figures. How to keep track of a persistent massacre, which never stops? I suggested that we count then, from October 1st to that same day when our colleague Rebeca was going to diagram those plates: 13 femicides in 16 days. And we don’t know if today, Friday, October 17, that brutal figure doesn’t have to be changed for a worse one.
I hope there are no more victims left uncounted, because the femicides have definitively stopped. But we know that this is a wish that will not come true, it is just a matter of hours. Writing about femicides is trying to write an article that can never be closed for publication, at the risk of giving out-of-date news.
How to keep track of a persistent massacre, which never stops?
In that article that we published in The Daily Left four days ago and which Myriam and I summarized on social networks 24 hours ago, we denounced the hate speeches converted into State ideology that legitimizes femicidal violence. In the case of Pablo Laurta, they also made possible the association of a group of misogynistic men who promoted this hunt for women through false complaints, the promotion of anti-feminist and violent public policies with the endorsement of Uruguayan deputies and “intellectual” advisors to the government of Javier Milei, such as Nicolás Márquez and Agustín Laje.
But we did not find out, until late at night, that the Minister of Security herself, Patricia Bullrich, the same one who orders the beating and gassing of retirees every Wednesday around Congress, made chilling statements about the femicides.
While the host of the streaming, known as Gordo Dan, tried to make a speech that would disassociate the government, the State and the macabre characters who supposedly advise him intellectually from any connection with double femicide, the minister said against feminisms: “What you do is generate an idea that you are empowered, that you have the power and you are capable of trampling anyone. It doesn’t matter if it is a man, your mother, your father or whoever: you trample on him. What ends up happening is that it turns against you. “The imbalance that extreme feminism generated leads you to situations in which violence is so strong that it ends up destroying the very person who supports that logic.”
From the creators of “businessmen do not invest because workers have too many rights”, now comes “femicides are the fault of women who denounce gender violence.” A very interesting philosophy that promotes slavery, in the mouths of scammers,…
— Andrea D’Atri (@andreadatri) October 17, 2025
The repressor Patricia Bullrich makes it clear that, then, it is not a question of “a crazy man on the loose,” as La Libertad Avanza responds about each femicide and, particularly, with the Uruguayan who has close ideological, political and personal ties with members of the vernacular right. They are no longer just propagators of hate speech that legitimizes misogynistic violence, they are no longer just politically responsible for fiscal adjustments that eliminate and dismantle public policies aimed at preventing sexist violence or caring for victims. They are also promoters of this femicidal violence. And they do it, blaming the victims for having been murdered. “They must have done something” was the way in which state terrorism was socially justified during the genocidal dictatorship, every time someone disappeared, they were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in clandestine detention centers.
Writing about femicides is trying to write an article that can never be closed for publication, at the risk of giving out-of-date news.
Any speech, coming from wherever it may be, that continues to repeat that the advance of this conservative, misogynistic and criminal ultra-liberal right is, in part, the responsibility of the movements that occupy the streets, in defense of our lives and our rights, is complicit in the barbarism that the government wants to naturalize.
It is clear that we did not pass three towns. But, paraphrasing the great revolutionary Louise Michel, “Be careful with women when they feel disgusted with everything around them and revolt against the old world…”. Because that day, when we sweep away the human excrement of this immoral right, there will also be no room for defenses and justifications of those who did not accompany our fight.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
