Thousands of women participated in the march on March 8, which went from the UAEM Chamilpa Campus to the Plaza de Armas in Cuernavaca, on the occasion of International Women's Day. The participants carried purple and green banners and posters, chanting slogans like: 'Kimberly, listen, this is your struggle' and 'Justice for Karol'. At the head of the march was a purple banner with the legend: 'Feminism against all war'. Behind it were the names and images of femicide victims, including student Aylin Rodríguez, who disappeared and was murdered in 2025. The Re-Percusión Wamazo Ensemble accompanied the protest, hitting iron fences that sought to contain the demonstrators. Along the way, women carried signs with messages such as: 'Women deserve to live safely, freely and without violence', 'Being a woman should stop being a death sentence' and 'For those who hugged their mother without knowing it would be their last hug'. Direct slogans were also heard: 'They took them alive, we want them alive', 'Sir, madam, don't be indifferent, they are killing women in front of everyone' and aimed at President Claudia Sheinbaum, and for the first time, at Governor Margarita González Saravia, for the management of femicide violence in the entity and the slow response in the Kimberly case. Upon arriving at the Plaza de Armas, thousands of women surrounded an altar in memory of Kimberly. They placed posters and slogans on the fences. Her friend Nancy González denounced that, despite the searches, there are no culprits or advances, and she asked the authorities to guarantee justice. During the march, iconoclastic interventions were carried out at the IMSS-Bienestar health center in Tlaltenango, the old Congress of Morelos and some establishments. They also questioned the installation of fences in the Plaza de Armas, considered a symbol of the government's inability to protect women and guarantee justice. The mobilization closed with songs, slogans and memory. Amid screams and hugs, the march left a clear message: women are not alone, they do not accept indifference and demand justice for all. They demanded justice for Kimberly Joselin Ramos and Karol Toledo, Psychology students who disappeared and were murdered less than a week apart; they also intervened in buildings and monuments with iconoclasm to make visible the femicide violence in the entity. The initial contingent was made up of UAEM students. The participants sang 'Canción sin miedo', by Vivir Quintana, which has become an anthem for women in struggle in Latin America. The 'black block' intervened the Government Palace with paint, a device that generated fire, stones, and hammers. 'We cannot pass from an intermediate audience'. Another poster showed the file of Itzel Zurisaday Sánchez Valdez, missing since July 2024 in Tlaltizapán. Another group climbed the monument to Emiliano Zapata, generating support from those present. Among the demonstrators, it was heard: 'Those girls do represent me!'. The Permanent Committee of the 8M March read a statement in which they denounced the State's omission before femicides, the slowness of investigations, institutional indifference and cases of vicarious violence. Her mother, Karime Rodríguez, pointed out that the investigation has barely made progress: 'There has been no sentence'.
