Cristina Rivera Garza asks the prosecutor to clarify her sister’s crime in 1990

A few hours after learning that Cristina Rivera Garza won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Memoir or Autobiography category for the book El invencible Verano de Liliana, the writer called on the Mexico City prosecutor’s office to clarify the crime of her younger sister. occurred in 1990, as well as the multiple femicides that have left Mexican families in mourning in recent years.

“If the awards are useful for anything, it is to attract attention, I hope that this attention that now falls on Liliana’s Invincible Summer is strong enough to move and invite to action the Judicial Orders staff of the Prosecutor’s Office of the City of Mexico”.

He said that in that instance the investigation papers have been available for two years to clarify whether the alleged feminicide of his sister, Ángel González Ramos, died under the nickname Michelle Angelo Giovanni, in southern California, on May 2, 2020.

“It is up to the authorities to confirm whether the Michelle Angelo Giovanni who died in Marina del Rey is in fact the Ángel González Ramos for whom an arrest warrant is still pending.”

The writer, who addressed the feminicide of her sister in her work, said that one of the many reasons why the high numbers of femicides prevail in Mexico is due to the high percentage of impunity of both the authorities and society.

“A feminicide in Mexico knows that he has a great chance of committing the crime, and that nothing happens to him; She knows that very often she can count on the complicity of families, friends, neighbors, and co-workers, who instead of reporting, will turn a blind eye.

While justice from the authorities arrives, Rivera Garza said that writing works like Liliana’s Invincible Summer is one of the ways she has found to build memory and truth, “all of us who miss the women we have lost because of the violence, all of us who mention their names and tell their stories are participating in another form of justice.”

“It is a kind of small daily revolution when we all agree and miss these women who have been taken from us.”

The award-winning writer sent a message of solidarity to families who, like her, have lost a woman to femicidal violence, “I hope they feel embraced by this recognition, Liliana would be very happy, I think that together we have a lot of work to do.”

He added: “Only in company and solidarity will we be able to build a world in which girls and young women can walk free and safe.”