Tens of thousands of women and children took to the streets for International Women’s Day in Mexico City. People like Guadalupe Camacho and her three daughters. They were protesting violence against women, and specifically a rise in the number of women and girls murdered daily across Mexico — a rate that’s more than doubled over the last five years. Names of femicide victims — more than 1,000 in 2019 — were painted across the main city plaza. The crime of femicide in Mexico is murder for reasons of gender, often committed by people known to the victim. It’s like a hate crime in the U.S., except here almost none of the murders are ever solved. The vast majority marched in peace. But there was an anarchist contingent. Male journalists were chased away. The all-female police force went to guard the doors to the National Palace when suddenly ... Women dressed in black threw plastic Molotov cocktails at police lines. A few of the injured were whisked away to ambulances. Is your arm OK? Did you get burned? Despite the bombs, the female police showed restraint. I didn’t see a single arrest. The next day, these streets and businesses would be partly empty of women, as tens of thousands took part in a national strike aimed at pressuring the government to do more to stop the culture of violence against women.