the Guatemalan National Defense Navy 50 Cubans arrested in the waters of the Rio Dulce on Monday when finding three boats irregular transport of migrants with the United States as the final destination.
Guatemalan security forces They implemented the established protocols and brought the people to the Corinto (Izabal) border post. There he was expelled from Guatemalan territory because he had not complied with the conditions laid down.
Many women are among the Cuban migrants attempting to reach the United States by land or sea. the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)he warned of this in an interview with EFE the dangers women face on these journeys.
“There are more and more women, and with minors” those who traverse the Darién jungle, “and the main consequence is the increase of the sexual violence they suffer during transit‘ assured the director of CEJIL for Central America and Mexico, Claudia Paz.
This nongovernmental organization cited figures from the National Migration Service (SNM) of Panama between January and February last year About 8,456 people crossed the border to Colombia.
The migratory flow increased from May 2021, a year that eventually ended with unprecedented number of arrivals of more than 130,000 people on their way north.
Paz was mainly referring to pending issues Caring for women victims of sexual violence, access to health, justice and support for minors whose families have been left behind or have died.
Many women choose not to report rape
The coordinator of CEJIL’s Human Mobility Project for Central America, Mexico and the United States, Gabriela Oviedo, told EFE the sexual violence suffered by women crossing the Darién is “worrying“.
“The sexual violence that women suffer is systematic, as has happened in recent years and when interviewing people at immigration stations, all reported seeing or meeting victims during the trip‘ he elaborated.
According to Oviedo, “there are numbers that As of November 2021, more than 300 cases of sexual violence have been reported and the investigation figures were ignored”.
Oviedo told EFE that some women arriving at Bajo Chiquitito, the first point after crossing the Darién, “They present sexual assaults of up to 10 people”.
“The state is obliged to guarantee within 72 hours Access to retroviruses and contraceptives‘ said Oviedo. “Here it is Access to health must take precedence over equityand because they understand that they are on the road, many choose not to file a complaint,” he concluded.