Victoria Razo

Documentary Photographer + Photojournalist
  
Alvina
Location: Veracruz, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Biography: Victoria Razo is a freelance photographer based between Mexico City and Veracruz in Mexico. Her work focuses on Human Rights, gender, migration, and environmental stories. Razo is a "Hostile Environment and First Aid Training" (HEFAT)... MORE
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Alvina
Copyright Victoria Razo 2024
Updated Nov 2019
Topics Abortion, Abuse, Adoption, Family, Fear, Feminism, Gender, Human Rights, Latin America, Parenting & Family, Photography, Relationships, Sexuality, Violence, Womens Rights
The story of Alvina Salazar, a woman who suffered violence for more than two decades inside her home by her partner is one of the cases that stands out in the Potosina region of La Huasteca in Mexico.

At the age of 16, Alvina began her love life with a man 20 years older than her, adopted four male children of this man and played her role as a mother at an early age taking on parenting and homework, during which time she lived "The worst of hell" as she catalogs it.

Among the scenes of domestic violence Alvina Salazar faced the cruellest: Abortions caused by blows to the belly, the attempted murder of her first biological daughter and the wounds caused by a sharp knife that ended up buried in her arm.

In view of the increase in acts related to gender-based violence, in 2018, the Laboratory for Research on Gender, Interculturality and Human Rights and the College of San Luis Potosi requested local authorities to include several municipalities of the Huasteca Potosina in the alert of gender violence, among them Coxcatlán, from where Alvina is originally.

Above all, Salazar always protected her children, separated from her aggressor and dedicated 16 years of her life to helping women victims of violence, leading the Women's Institute, in the municipality of Coxcatlán, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.


La historia de Alvina Salazar, una mujer que sufrió violencia durante más de dos décadas dentro de su hogar por parte de su pareja es uno de los casos que destaca en la región potosina de La Huasteca en México.

A la edad de 16 años Alvina comenzó su vida sentimental con un hombre 20 años mayor que ella, adoptó cuatro hijos varones de este hombre y ejerció su papel como madre a una edad temprana asumiendo las labores de crianza y del hogar, durante este tiempo vivió “el peor de los infiernos” como ella lo cataloga.

Entre las escenas de violencia doméstica Alvina Salazar se enfrentó a las más crueles: Abortos causados por golpes en el vientre, la tentativa de homicidio a su primer hija biológica y las heridas causadas por un afilado cuchillo que terminó enterrado en su brazo.

Ante el aumento de los actos relacionados con la violencia de género, en 2018, el Laboratorio de Investigación de Género, Interculturalidad y Derechos Humanos y el Colegio de San Luis solicitaron a las autoridades locales que incluyan varios municipios de la Huasteca Potosina en la alerta de violencia de género, entre ellos Coxcatlán, de donde Alvina es originaria.

Por encima de todo Salazar siempre protegió a sus hijos, se separó de su agresor y dedicó 16 años de su vida a ayudar a mujeres víctimas de violencia, dirigiendo el Instituto de la Mujer, en el municipio de Coxcatlán, en San Luis Potosí, México.
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