Thirty years after the murder of María Soledad Morales, her schoolmates, the young women who fought to bring the truth to light, gather in Catamarca to commemorate the death of their friend and retrace the steps of a tragedy that marked a milestone. María Soledad was the first recognized case of femicide in Argentina.
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00:00We were 17 years old, with the innocence of the degraded journey,
00:06and that's when we realized there was evil.
00:11Catamarca, the body of María Soledad Morales appeared.
00:17It was the first case taken as a femicide, because until that moment,
00:21the woman was always to blame.
00:24At that moment, I would have preferred that someone had shot me
00:28because I didn't see the body of my daughter.
00:31They belong to the political power of Catamarca.
00:33Those who killed my daughter want to cover it at all costs.
00:36The police ordered the arrest of Luis Tula.
00:39If he goes to Tula's side, he is defying him.
00:42How much did they offer you?
00:43Two million dollars.
00:44It was explicit impunity.
00:47It was said that they were sons of politicians.
00:50It seems that it was customary for them to catch some Chinese, as they said.
00:56There is a need to tell everyone what we lived when we were 17 years old.
01:02We knew that we were going to go out to the streets to ask for justice.
01:07I went out and the whole school was ready to go out, quiet.
01:11And all you could hear was the sound of footsteps.
01:15And there was the march of silence.
01:18And the desire that in this country, once and for all,
01:21justice reigns, which we want so much.
01:24The march was so strong that the province intervened.
01:28People in Catamarca knew a lot, but they couldn't speak.
01:32If a witness came and said something they didn't like, they would cover their mouths.
01:36It was a big role.
01:38It is his body that speaks through the autopsy reports.
01:41Believe me, whoever did this to me is stained with my blood.
01:45María Soledad is the symbol of what we can do today as a social struggle.
01:51Women.
01:54Women.