This archive report was first published on 6 December 2019.
Published on December 6, 2019, a protest anthem against macho violence, created by a group of women in Chile, has taken the world by storm.
The anthem, first performed in Valparaiso on November 20, has been replicated hundreds of times around the globe, with videos of flashmob performances going viral.
On Wednesday, around 10,000 women from all ages in Santiago, dressed in black and wearing red scarves and blindfolds, converged on the city's national stadium for the biggest such performance yet.
The women sang, "The fault is not with me, nor where I was, nor how I was dressed... The rapist is you!" as they stomped their feet and waved their arms in a choreographed routine.
Similar performances have been staged by women in Paris, Barcelona, and Mexico City, among other locations.
The group, LasTesis, initially planned the performance as a small part of a bigger artistic event about rape, but decided to release it early after complaints of police abuse of women emerged during a crackdown on recent social protests in Chile.
"The song came out of a call from various artists in Valparaiso to generate protests in the streets," LasTesis said in an op-ed in Chilean weekly magazine The Clinic.
"It seems that worldwide we perceive the same feelings about our bodies and our life experiences and this has transformed into a great song," said the group, composed of actresses Sibila Sotomayor and Dafne Valdes, designer Paula Cometa, and wardrobe artist Read Caceres.
