Lyrical genius Mare Advertencia Lirika using her rap songs in battle to save Mexican women rights | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Oaxaca City, Mexico – Rain spattered against the taxi’s window during the uphill drive to the Colonia Jardín neighbourhood on the outskirts of Oaxaca City, the capital of one of the country’s poorest states. “Storms turn the mud up here into chewing gum,” Mare Advertencia Lirika, a local rapper, told Al Jazeera. Mare, 28, an indigenous…