On March 7, a day before International Women's Day, the fence surrounding the National Palace was covered with flowers, protest messages and names of all those women whose lives have been taken as a result of gender violence.

Activists, mothers, sisters, friends and other family members gathered in front of the National Palace around 4:00 p.m. as part of the initiative "Let's fill the wall with flowers" announced on social networks by the feminist collective "Antimonumenta Vivas nos queremos" as part of a peaceful protest and a reminder of the thousands of women who have been murdered in Mexico.

On March 5, the federal government authorized the construction of what authorities called a "wall of peace", arguing that it is done with the main purpose of "protecting the patrimony" and avoiding a confrontation between the riot police and the women who come out to protest.

This act has been harshly criticized by feminist groups and even opposition politicians, who point out that the government is more concerned about the integrity of a building than the safety of women.

The activists who initiated this call invited other feminist collectives to bring flowers and continue working on what they renamed the "wall of memory", to later join them on March 8 at the protest to be held in the same place where the wall is located, where once again, women will gather to ask the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, to put a stop to violence against women.

Mexico has recorded an increase in gender-related homicides in the nation, as well as a high rate of impunity, which allows the perpetrators of such heinous crimes to remain free on the streets. In 2020 alone, the country recorded 967 femicides, a figure that narrowly equals that reported in 2019 (969).

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