The radio program spoke with the leader of the Vidas Resilientes organization, Juana Rosa García, to provide details of the role she plays and a look at how the country is with gender violence.
By Nicolás Torrez
Nicolastorrez2022@gmail.com
The note from “No Te Duermas” began with the president of Vidas Resilientes, Juana Rosa García, explaining what the association consists of: “The woman reports, they give her the paper, she leaves and, until they call her again or they put a perimeter on her, the woman remains in a space. In that space we appear, we are the ones who give her support and who guide her.”
“Those who are not experiencing the problem, more or less see it or, in our case where we already have experience, we know what is going to happen or what things can happen. We are preventing them, we are accompanying them and helping them,” she added.
According to Rosa García, “it is within the Gender Violence Law that the woman has to be accompanied at the time of the complaint or the interviews to guide them.” She also maintained that, according to what a judge told her, there is “a patriarchal and sexist justice” and that “the important thing would be for all of them to know the law.”
“It is assumed that, if they are public agents, they know them because they are supposed to have made the law. They were in the Micaela Law, they had to perfect themselves in that,” declared the interviewee and added: “It is the form of mistreatment that the institutions have, making them go through it alone in order to be able to leave them in more evidence and make them worse. I have not yet found any woman who has been treated well while they are asked these types of questions or have some kind of hearing.”
Elaborating further on the task they perform, she added: “We guide them to which institution to go, if we can accompany them we accompany them, it depends on the distances where to go. Sometimes they are in that place and they make a video call to me because they are allowed to. So, it is a way of being in company, listening above all to what they say, because sometimes in the not knowing of each day is when women can say anything that harms them.”
Resistance to gender violence
The interviewee was asked if they had a residence where women could go or if it was always virtual, to which she explained: “The in-person support is only when we decide to accompany women to an interview or to ask for lawyers, nothing more. We do not have spaces. We have asked, even if it is a small place, to be at home and also receive them in person. The way we follow is support through the phone, video calls or calls.”
“Sometimes they cannot speak and it is only by writing because they have the aggressor next to them. In those cases it is virtual, but we work with the entire country,” she said.
Rosa García reviewed that “when this began they were going to work only with women victims of gender violence, but that, when they finished covering that front, a year later the same woman appeared to them as a victim of vicarious violence.”
“Vicarious violence is when the man blames the woman, generally accusing her of being the one who gives the child ideas when that is not the case. It is when the father ends up taking the children away from the woman in one way or another and does not allow her to see them,” explained the leader and added: “In many cases it has happened that the fathers end up killing their children. That is extreme vicarious violence. Here we have two or three cases, where we have many cases in Spain.”
On how her organization took the news of the elimination of the Ministry of Women: “I was very upset when they removed the ministry, because I consider that what has been done must be preserved. It will have to be improved if necessary. What I would have done is purge. Instead of ten people who do nothing, I would leave five or three who work, I would not have closed any institution.”
The influence of abuse
In another part of the interview, Rosa García gave her point of view on President Javier Milei: “This man, as we have seen, hates women. I regret having to say it like this, but I remember during the campaign where he spent his time shouting at women and talking to them about donkeys. So, if we publicly mistreat women who are already punished, what can we expect?”
“Since the campaign, the mistreatment he gave to people and especially to women was very noticeable. And then, everything he said we could confirm because, although it may seem untrue, the media arrive and have a lot of influence and, when they like someone, they start to take the attitudes and I am talking about teenagers where we found out about cases that took the examples given by Milei to justify what they wanted,” she concluded.
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