Justice for cases of the past? The question that now floats in the air
Claudia Sheinbaum launched an idea that could change the rules of the game. In the midst of announcing her new general law against feminicide, the president dropped that it could be analyzed whether this regulation is applied retroactively. This, of course, only if Congress gives the go-ahead first.
The initiative sent to the Legislature does not propose this retroactivity from the beginning. Its main objective is another: to create a solid framework to investigate new cases and, hopefully, end the impunity that surrounds these atrocious crimes. But Sheinbaum opened a window.
“This is not the case in the Constitution, there is no retroactivity; it can be analyzed through the prosecutor and the Women’s Secretariat whether it is feasible to do this or not, we can review it,” she said during her morning conference.
The message between the lines is powerful. He talks about reopening relevant cases that were never resolved. To give a second chance to thousands of families who still cry out for truth. It is as if the political scene had received an unexpected new script.
A law with teeth: harsher penalties and fundamental changes
The proposal itself is already compelling. It proposes penalties of 40 to 70 years in prison for anyone who commits this crime. But it goes beyond punishment.
It forces the Public Ministry to investigate every violent death of a woman as a possible feminicide from the first moment. No starting with other hypotheses that dilute and delay. I would also implement the continuous shift so that the investigations do not stop.
Here is the dramatic crux: Sheinbaum puts a historic possibility on the table while looking for tools for the future. The question now is whether Congress will act with the same urgency that the chilling numbers of violence in our country demand. The first act has already begun.
