Elizabeth Otavalo
“Not one woman less!”: Ecuadorian women march against gender-based violence

The march took place on year after the femicide of 34-year-old lawyer María Belén Bernal at the hands of her cop husband Germán Fernando Cáceres inside the Quito Police Training High School

Femicide of María Belén Bernal sparks outrage in Ecuador

María Belén Bernal was found murdered five kilometers from the Police Training School. Bernal’s mother deemed her daughter’s femicide as “a state crime.”