Guatemala is located in Central America bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico. Slightly smaller than Tennessee with a population of 13,002,206 Guatemala does not seem like a country in turmoil. But that's just looking at the surface you got to go deeper underneath to find out what the country is hiding.
A documentary was featured about something called " A Killer's Paradise" in Guatemala. But what is it about ruthless gangs? No, its about the fact that the women in this country have a lot to fear. They have to worry about being murdered, raped, beaten just because they are female.
And what do the authority's do about this? Between 2000 and 2003 around 2000 women were murdered. This does not include the ones who were just kidnapped, or raped, not even those who somehow managed to escape. The women who were killed were just normal people, some were in the median years of their life or older. Others had not even begun to live.
But that doesn't not answer the question what are the police doing to stop these or even solve the cases? The answer is nothing, in one case a father came to the police to report that his 20 year old daughter had been kidnapped and begged for them to help and to set up roadblocks to stop the car that she was forced into. After two hours of searching he returned back to the police station to see what progress they had made. he was told that he never reported the crime.
His 20 year old daughter was murdered. This could have been prevented if the police had actually done their job. A even further blow to the grieving father is when most of the evidence that had been collected was sent to him. NO leads. NO arrests. The very clothes that she wore when she was killed that could be the very link that connects the victim to the killer, were saliva from the bite marks that had been inflicted upon her could have brought her killer down to justice.
In another situation a 15 year old girl manage to escape with her life. She was kidnapped and raped but manage to convince her kidnappers that she would not tell anyone and was sent back to her family. Her rapist was caught and put in jail. But it didn't end there. he escaped.
There is a law that states a rapist can avoid jail time and conviction by marrying his victim. That 15 year old girl and her seven sisters and parents are now endangered and were even threaten to marry her rapist or the home would be burned with the family inside.
So women have no value or position in this country. When there own lives are taken from them they killer is probably not ever to be caught or serve anytime in jail. Evidence that can prove them guilty is bagged tagged but spends months and never has been sent off for testing. The own system that is supposed to serve and protect has fallen. This is why Guatemala is a women's worse hell, its were their lives don't matter.
Information found from " A Killer's Paradise" on the documentary channel.
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