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El cuerpo femenino y la cultura machista

by: Marcela Gereda / elPeriódico

Guatemala .- before their bodies were invaded and pregnant with white fur, and Europe. They were then mobilized (in trucks like cattle) and exploited to cut the large coffee estates of Alta Verapaz. In the eighties their bodies were, in many cases, massacred, burned or disappeared by the military. Today these yq'eqchi's female bodies displayed brown bodies again as vulnerable and violated where he enrolled and reproduces the patriarchal culture.

From December 20, 2010 President Alvaro Colom imposed a state of siege in Alta Verapaz to "fight the drug traffickers, the Mexican cartel Los Zetas, who found a haven for South American drug decant the United States. The high police presence (sold) and over five hundred military (harmful) have failed to stem violence in general and women in particular.

According to the Commission against Sexual Violence against Women reported 508 violations in the past year, in addition to 2,421 complaints of violence against women. And only in the first month of this year more than 30 rapes of women in that department "And the improvement of the security system supported by the Ministry of Interior in this department? A large staging.

On the other hand, according Walda Barrios, adviser to the Union of Guatemalan Women, now in Guatemala, femicide is the most extreme form of violence against women. He says: "There is a profile of the murdered, students, workers in the maquila, and an underlying message: in your house you better. We see a correlation between increased women's political participation and an increase in the killings. It is a punishment, "he adds.

The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala said that in 2010 there were 847 violent deaths of women in Guatemala and more than 4,300 sexual violence cases assisted by forensic services. Impunity reaches 96% of homicides, according to UNIFEM, violence against women continues to be the human rights abuse more common in Central America. What do these violations and abuses of women's bodies in general Guatemalan yq'eqchi's in particular?

These violations Q'eqchi 'women are a disgusting invasion not only your body but your dignity. The body that is the intersection of all instances of culture, is the ultimate allocation of the symbolic field.

So their existence is sealed by a history of individual and collective violence. Individual stories of violence inherited structural frameworks of poverty and overcrowding, which is common to find abuse, physical abuse, emotional and sexual. And because there is collective including a history of violence against their bodies where they socialize and play practices and behaviors that were identified and constructed as women vulnerable and abused your body and soul. When used force their bodies for the pleasure of another, the bodies of these women Q'eqchi 'is the territory which is part of the patriarchal culture. Where is the Ministry of Interior, the Public Ministry, the white palayeras are sensitized by the death of a petty lawyer but are unable to denounce the injustices committed against these women's bodies Q'eqchi '. Where are the evangelical churches, Opus Dei and other "solidarity networks"?

How much are our lives and our bodies in a country like this, at a time like this? The Guatemalans are unarmed. The figures and failed to surprise us. The country is sinking and we with it. We unarmed, almost asleep. Memory. Handed over to oblivion, no interest in the history of what has made us who we are and be as we are, the uncertainty. Folly. No bigger than the savagery of the folly and indifference. Apathy makes us complicit in what we abhor. This time I implore not sit idly. Do not shut up their voices. Do not we silence his cries.