Femicide In Central America

Mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends are being murdered everyday for the simple reason that they are women. In Mexico 66 percent of murders of women are committed by their husbands or boyfriends. In a male dominated society women of all ages from every corner of the world are at risk of being murdered just because they are women. Femicides occur when men think of women as their personal possessions, when they get this idiotic idea that is: “she belongs to me so I can do whatever i want to her”. Femicide is when women are murdered simply because their skirts are too short or because they refuse to have sex with their partners. With most cases of femicide there is a history of abuse, harassment or rape. A major difference between most homicides …show more content…
Just in the past year there were 685 targeted female murders there. Femicides are becoming more and more brutal and at the same time the reactions are staying the same, very little importance is given to these cases through out Latin America.. According to a report by the Small Arms Survey more than half of the 25 countries with the highest femicide rates are in the Americas. In Colombia 1 woman is killed every other day by gender related violence. In Argentina, the number is closer to 1 a day. In Brazil, 15 women a day are victims of femicide. As a woman learning these statiscics has me very much in shock and has me scared and sad to live in a world were things like this are STILL …show more content…
An even more shocking matter is that less than 2 percent of those investigated cases led to sentencing.. But this didn't just happen in Mexico, it happens all over Latin America. Most Latin American countries have specific laws set aside to deal with femicides but as the statistics stated, majority of the time the authorities disregard these specific laws. There have been cases were the evidence couldn’t be any more obvious yet the authoritites choose to look the other way. Such as in the case of 24-year-old Nadia Alejandra Muciño who was found dead in her home with a rope and an electrical cord tied around her throat. All the evidence pointed to murder via strangulation, and there had been a documented record of of domestic violence, local authorities declared Mucino's death a suicide. This specific case occurred in the outsides of Mexico’s capital in a very poor area which is why this case most likely didn't receive the attention and the care it very much needed. Justice is corrupt in many cases if theres no money there is no justice especially when it comes to cases involving