From 2019 to July of this year, the deaths of 2,145 women were recorded from violent crimes involving firearms and knives, asphyxiation, burns and decapitation, according to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences.
First in that long list is the department of Guatemala, with 42 percent of cases, women between the ages of 10 and 30, being located after families activated the Isabel Claudin alert.
In general, the corpses appear with marks of torture, which are placed in sacks, to the point that in some cases their immediate recognition is difficult, as happened in
Pamela Molina, a 26-year-old girl, an elementary school teacher who went out to do paperwork on the morning of December 3, 2020 and her family have never been heard from.
Two weeks later they received the sad news and only a tattoo on their body allowed them to be identified.
According to the vivir sin violencia.org platform, there was a decrease in these events in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with an average of 26 monthly reports up to September; However, the number rose to 48 from October to December.
It also concerns that women, like the general population, were locked up for a long time and it was more difficult to lodge complaints with the prosecutor’s office.
With the country opening up, the surge has been so evident that the pre-pandemic reported cases have been the same, 55 per month, an average the source says is being maintained.
Other dangerous places in the country based on the number of bodies found are Escuintla (seven percent) and Chiquimula (six).
In the case of the department of Guatemala, 99 women were brutally murdered there from January to July this year, followed by the municipalities of Villa Nueva (28 dead) and Mixco with 12.
Experts remind that aggression against women as a result of the prevailing sexist violence in this country remains a deep-rooted societal problem.
With this in mind, they point out that little is being done on the issue of preventing violence and urge the State to take public action to curb this scourge.
Like every International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Coordinadora 25 de Noviembre joined a vigil and a walk for life to the Plaza de la Constitución to make the phenomenon visible and unite the will to fight it from home, where most of the pregnancies of girls in boys years occur.
The activities began last night with a march through the busy sixth avenue of the historic center by the light of lanterns and above the bodies of its members, placards with the names of the female victims.
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