For María Elena Ríos, the saxophone is helping heal the psychological scars left by a terrifying attack in which men splashed acid onto her face and body, disfiguring her. Ríos has now joined a movement calling for greater punishments for acid attacks.
MEXICO CITY — María Elena Ríos has conflicting feelings about her saxophone: She once blamed the instrument for bringing her to the brink of death — but it also has been her salvation.
“We are reconciling, little by little,” Ríos said of the musical instrument. “I hated it, because I thought it was responsible” for the 2019 attack in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca. She’s performed live since then, but still wears a mask covering her lower face. Acid attack survivor Maria Elena Ríos at the Monument to Women in Struggle, in Mexico City, on Feb. 4, 2023. Ríos.Meanwhile, Ríos has joined a movement calling for greater punishments for acid attacks and says the saxophone is her “sword” in that battle on behalf of victims.
The Carmen Sánchez Foundation, started in 2021 to highlight the issue in Mexico, says government health data from 2022 suggests more than 100 women were attacked by chemicals or some kind of corrosive agent, though only 28 were reported to authorities. Maria Elena Ríos cleans her saxophone at the end of a rehearsal at the National Autonomous University of Mexico music department, in Mexico City, on Feb. 14, 2023.She was hospitalized for five months after the attack, and still recalls the sadness in her parents’ eyes when she awoke in hospital.
The man accused of ordering the attack, Juan Manuel Vera Carrizal, was a local legislator and businessman. He has declared himself innocent and his lawyers deny he had any involvement.
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