It occurred amid the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico in which 230 women were killed between January and September of that year and 39 of them were investigated as femicides.

[2][3] During the installation, Enrique Ibarra Pedroza, Secretary General of the State Government, tried to negotiate the site where the Antimonumenta would be placed but only received complaints that he should have attended to them when they requested meetings to talk to him.

[6] Imelda Josefina Virgen Rodríguez was an academic and the first woman to be killed after the approval of femicide as a crime in Jalisco.

[17] Ibarra Pedroza attempted to negotiate the removal of the monument with the state's branch of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), citing that it was against their guidelines since it was a historic area and it had to be respected.

Architects cited the building of the Guadalajara Centro railway station as an example of previous omissions to those guidelines.

[11] The director of the state's INAH, Alicia García Vázquez, mentioned that it should "remain in that space, because in the end it symbolically represents these disappeared or murdered women" and that its permanence should be analyzed like any other monument.