"Women assassinated in Guatemala The past year 2004 341 women were assassinated in Guatemala without the authors have been punished. According to the official statistics: 1,300 crimes from year 2000 In 2002 were assassinated 244 women In 2003 were assassinated 383 Source: The Vanguard, 14-09-2004 From January of 2004, more than 450 social women of all the ages and categories they have been assassinated in Guatemala. Adding 1,400 victims in five years. Source: The World, 14-02-2005, El Salvador, C.A. During which she goes of year 2005 53 women in Guatemala have been assassinated of violent form. In 2004 527 women were assassinated violently. In 2003 the murders to women rose to 383. Source: Internacional.Yucatán.com.mx, 14-02-2005 The statistics vary a little, but the result is equal of terrible: ASSASSINATED WOMEN. The victims die, like in City Juárez and Sonora, strangled, mutilated, stabbed... They are young and humble generally women who are kidnapped, violated and d before being assassinated. To date it is possible to be said that there has been halting of no authors. They have not been punished because nobody has worried to look for them, to investigate them and to accuse them. The assassins stand out to their wide ones with absolute impunity. Given the incapacity of the State to end this horror, the Network of the Violence against the Woman and the Conaprevi (National Commission of the Prevention of the Violence Intrafamiliar) they did not request the presence of the special relatora of the Inter-American Commission of Human rights of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.), Susana Villarán, that was in Guatemala the week of the 14 of September of 2004 with the objective "to establish the origin, the causes and the effects of the murders", and that was concentrated in three points: violence, discrimination and access to the justice of the women. The Nobel prize Rigoberta Menchú, who collaborates with the government, and who described as femicido horrible east phenomenon, recognized that "there is frightful impunity". According to it seems maras (gangs) are in the front sight on the part of the specialists. In the capital they exist more than 90 maras, which they group about 10,000 gang members, and near 400 in the rest of the country. The sea wind onshore ones are implacable when there is to defend its territory or to its companions, to whom consider objects of their property. If a young person leaves a sea wind onshore one she has signed its sentence. Also it could be possible that these young people die in iniciáticos rites that are ted the new members of maras. On the other hand the Alliance for the Prevention of the Crime (Aprede) calculates that there are about 160,000 gang members in the country and that these arise by the increase of the intrafamiliar violence. According to the Alliance, they are adolescent desperate that flees from all type of bad treatments that infringes its family to them and they are united to one mara to find security and one alternative of form to live. Despite they are used by parallel groups of power that use them for their aims. In order to begin to solve to this great problem, Frank the Rue, director of the Presidential Commission of Human rights, indicates that there is to attack hard the organized crime and to try not to respond with violence maras. More important that the opinions and suggestions of representatives of the government, organizations and people are to consider the surroundings in which happen these crimes. The woman in Guatemala undergoes a systematic negation to her rights, mainly in the access to the health and the work. In many cases it is mistreated by his husband or pair and is not defended of it by its government, before on the contrary, if it dares to denounce bad treatments, the sight as something strange and the offer from return to house. The misery is the plate of every day, that is known is no governmental plan that animates to create job or helps of individual form to people whom they love to mount his business and, if there is it, we doubted much that a woman could accede to him without the consent of some man of the family. The case is that as opposed to these massive murders of women, until now, there has been no satisfactory answer. The women, more and more terrified, attend incredulous the indifference of the authorities. Only an example of this society that is, according to a feminista of the movement the Cord, "terribly machista": the author of a violation to a minor is released if she commits herself to marry with her. If one considers that most of the violations is caused by very next relatives and they are not denounced, we can be made an idea of the calvario who live many young people in this country. We have understood that we are already in century XXI (equality of sort, democracy, right to studies, vote...). But horrors like this one and other similarities, make us think that we have not moved of century XVII or perhaps not yet we have arrived at him. Why still today it is necessary to request, Please, that investigates the murders of women? We are speaking of people, of citizens of the world. We are talking about to people with illusions or personal dramas, with children, husbands, parents and mothers or no. Individuals like us with eyes, mouth and heart but..., yes we see that there is but, a GREAT one BUT: they are only women. Torrese Equipment More information: The Vanguard, 14-09-2004, Spain The World, 14-02-2005, El Salvador, C.A. Internacional.Yucatán.com.mx, 14-02-2005, Mexico Image: univision.com"