Hundreds of Guatemalan women demonstrated this Friday, March 8, in the capital to demand respect for their rights, on a day marked by the Government’s apologies to the family of the 19-year-old student Claudina Velásquez, who disappeared and was murdered in 2005.
The march for Women’s Day in Guatemala took place this Friday followingnoon without major incidents through the center of the capital.
Under the cry of “the oppressive State is a male rapist”, several groups of women remembered the death of 41 girls in a fire in a state home on March 8, 2017 and blamed the government of Jimmy Morales (2016-2020) for it. ).
Likewise, dozens of women participating in the march also carried Palestinian flags, in support of the situation that has been experienced in the Gaza Strip since last October.
In the followingnoon, the Guatemalan Government officially apologized to the family of Claudina Velásquez, a 19-year-old law student who disappeared on August 12, 2005. Her remains were located shortly following in a neighborhood in the west of the capital. , following being murdered.
The event to honor the memory of Velásquez took place at the National Palace of Culture, headquarters of the Government, with the participation of the president, Bernardo Arévalo de León, and his vice president, Karin Herrera.
“It is tragic that (Cludina’s) history repeats itself time, following time, following time,” said Velásquez’s father, Jorge Velásquez, who participated in the government’s apology ceremony.
“Cludina’s case speaks of the women who are murdered every day in Guatemala,” he stressed.
Arévalo is pronounced
For his part, President Bernardo Arévalo pointed out in a message published on his social networks that this Friday’s apology act is part of the Government’s demonstration so that the State begins to comply “with its obligations.”
“8 years had to pass for the family of Claudina Isabel Velásquez Paiz to obtain an apology from the State of Guatemala for the murder of a daughter, sister, of a Guatemalan woman who, like thousands of other women, has been a victim of a State that has failed to protect their lives, their tranquility, their ability to dream,” Arévalo wrote in his X account.
“This apology is a commitment to creating the conditions that prevent these terrible acts from happening once more. It is honoring your memory, Claudina Isabel, it is honoring that of thousands of Guatemalans who lost their lives in similar conditions,” the president added.
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