It started in her own living room with dingy resources and a lack of background in criminal justice (Jones). As Guatemala regularly fails to investigate the crimes against women, families of victims become exacerbated that they will never receive the truth or justice they and their loved one deserves, which led Norma to pursue these cases and solve them herself (Human Rights Defender at Risk). Along with her colleagues, Norma became quite skilled at unraveling cases, augmenting her hopes as well as the populace of women in Guatemala that a new dawn was arising with each conviction …show more content…
I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” Essentially, this encases everything Cruz, simply stated, is. Despite living and breathing in a country that tells her she could never be equivalent to a man, she fights for the freedom of every woman in Guatemala. Instead of blindly following Guatemala’s customs, she voices her concerns and acts upon them. Cruz apprehends the danger she has placed herself in, yet she also recognizes that unless she acknowledges Guatemala’s moral turpitudes, her society will never convert into a just one. For Thoreau and Cruz, this is demonstrating civil disobedience in the most ideal way possible