The Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza She was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize, in the Memoirs and Autobiographies category, for her book Liliana’s invincible summer where he narrated the femicide of his sister in the early nineties.
The book was published in 2021, since then the native of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, has spoken about the case that shook her family and that came to light after a search for information about the person who murdered Liliana Rivera Garza.
Little is known about the perpetrator of the events today; However, according to what the graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) said, she began tracking information about Angel Gonzalez Ramos by opening an email account where he invited people to provide some information about said person.
And it is worth highlighting that since June 1990, González Ramos has evaded justice, despite the fact that he has a arrest warrant for the murder – now identified as femicide – of the 20-year-old girl who was studying Architecture in the country’s capital.
Based on what the author explained during an interview with The country and in accordance with the email messages he received, one of the theories was born about the location of his sister’s alleged feminicide.
This theory reveals that the subject moved and lived in Southern California, in the United States, under the name Mitchell Angel Giovanni; However, it joins the second hypothesis, which determines that died on May 2, 2020, drowned in Marina del Rey.
“Would it be true? Wasn’t it too much of a coincidence that, after 30 years and just when he had begun to bring the case to light, the alleged murderer died under rather strange circumstances? “Would it be possible that he had faked his own death to evade justice,” he explained to the aforementioned medium.
However, the second theory seemed to have a thread of reality because they sent him a link with a “digital wake”—an event that became popular due to the COVID-19 pandemic—where there were condolences from relatives with their loved ones. surnames from Mexicoin addition to the fact that the person who would be being veiled had the same date of birth—April 18, 1967—.
After having all this information, the author said that she shared all the information with the office of Alicia Rosas Rubí, then deputy attorney general of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJCDMX); However, it is the date on which does not have any answer about whether or not the alleged feminicide of his sister died.
The story of Liliana’s invincible summer focuses on the life and death of Liliana Rivera Garzasister of the author and victim of femicide in 1990. The work not only pays tribute to her memory, but also stands as a call to attention about gender violence and the need to combat patriarchy.
“’The Invincible Summer of Liliana’ is an excavation into the life of a brilliant and bold woman who lacked, like ourselves, the language necessary to identify, denounce and fight against sexist violence and intimate partner terrorism”
As such, it is considered a significant contribution both in the literary sphere and in the feminist struggle and gender studies.
Although the case has not had punitive justice, that is, a punishment by the State of the perpetrator, the author explains that the fact that readers embrace the work means that justice, in this case, is through collective memory. and combative in the present.
