From DJ Valentina Trespalacios to tiktoker murdered by jealousy: femicide violence does not stop

2023 started with a wave of feminicides in Latin America. Gender violence also affects young people, mothers, influencers, it does not discriminate by age or race, while the efforts of the authorities continue to be lacking.

The violence against women It manifests itself in multiple ways, it can range from psychological harassment or intimidation, to sexual abuse and femicide which, as a rule, are perpetrated by members of the family, partner or ex-partner of the victims. According to a report by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), of the 81,000 women and girls murdered in 2021, 45,000 died at the hands of their partners and members of their family. family.

The document also points out that while in Europe, from 2010 to 2021, there was an average decrease of 19%, in America an increase of 6% was observed. During the first month of this year, several femicides were recorded which shocked public opinion since the responsible are couples.

shocking cases

Laura Camila Duenas (January 30)

The most recent femicide took place in Yopal, Casanare, Colombia. Laura Camila Dueñas, a 22-year-old girl, died after being shot three times with a 38-caliber revolver by her ex-partner Edilberto Espinosa González, who allegedly stalked her for days since 2021.

The event was recorded in a shoe store where the victim worked and in front of work colleagues and clients. The author of the crime fled on a motorcycle to his home, where he would kill himself with a gunshot. It should be noted that before committing suicide, the 55-year-old man known as “Colacho” shot several times at the police who were pursuing him from downtown Yopal.

Valentina Trespalacios (January 22)

One of the most recent murders in South America is that of Colombian DJ Valentina Trespalacios, that according to the investigations of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, everything indicates that her boyfriend, the American John Poulos, would be the alleged perpetrator of the crime. The lifeless body with marks of aggression of the 23-year-old influencer was found last Sunday, January 22, in a garbage can in the city of Fontibón, a place located very close to the El Dorado airport in Bogotá.

The body was inside a blue suitcase and according to the investigations carried out by the Police, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Forensic Medicine, the young woman was hanged with a rope and beaten several times. The main suspect is his girlfriend, with whom he apparently spent his last moments. He was already arrested in Panama on January 24 and is awaiting trial.

Marilyn Martínez González (January 16)

The 29-year-old Peruvian Tiktoker was murdered on January 16 at 2 a.m. by her husband Alexandre Pinedo Barron 35 years, who stabbed him at least 30 times with a kitchen knife and in front of his grandson. The facts occurred in one of the rooms of the apartment where they lived, located in the neighborhood of San Borja, in the province of Lima, Peru, according to various local media.

Elements of the Peruvian National Police arrived at the site where the femicide was perpetrated after the neighbors called because cries for help had been heard, they found Marilyn’s lifeless body there. Before the terrible murder, the young woman had already filed a complaint in 2012 for physical assault, since according to the relatives of the victim, Alexandre was jealous and dominating. The child was entrusted to the care of the maternal grandmother. The Public Ministry ordered nine months of preventive detention against Alexander Pinedo.

Angy Diaz (January 11)

Another of the most tragic cases occurred on January 11, when a 21-year-old Nicaraguan girl named Angy Díaz was beheaded by her husband Jared James Dicus, whom he married on October 13, 2022 and lived in a county in Texas, United States. According to local media, Angy was found dead in the backyard of her home in Waller County, Texas, just outside Houston.

When they arrived at the scene, the authorities found the body of the young woman without a head, according to a bailiff the deadly weapon used was a kitchen knife. Note that it was the stepfather of the young woman who filed a complaint, since when he arrived at his son’s home he realized what had happened. Jared James Dicus was arrested by police in Magnolia, Texas. He underwent an assessment to determine if he should be referred to a center for people with intellectual disabilities.

Other cases

On Sunday, January 8, they were also murdered. two women by their partners, one of the events took place in Cadiz and the other in Ciudad Real, Spain. One of the young women was 24 and died after being stabbed in the chest by the 30-year-old man she was living with. He has already been arrested by the Civil Guard.

The other case occurred in a house in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, where a 40-year-old man allegedly shot and killed his partner Eva María Haza, a 46-year-old woman. The national police detained the subject, as well as a friend of the alleged murderer, since he witnessed the events.

On January 5, authorities in the municipality of Galapa, in the department of Atlántico, Colombia, found the lifeless body of a woman named Karen Lisbeth Guerra Hernandez, missing since January 1. His body had been buried in the patio of the house of his sentimental partner, Carlos Manuel Villarreal Mercado. The man is reported missing and a sum of one million dollars is offered to achieve his capture.

Types of gender-based violence

According to the Attorney General of the Republic, there are several ways to violence against womenone of them is the psychological, in which there is verbal aggression, manipulation and control. On the other hand, it is physical in which there is the use of force or weapons, with which injuries are caused to the body of the victims, which can even lead to death.

However there is also the sexual ranging from verbal harassment to rape against a woman’s will, and the economy in which there are actions that affect the survival of the victims by limiting their access to money, food, health services or housing. In Mexico, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, from January to September 2022, more than 91,500 women were victims of some type of violence.

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