La mujer latinoamericana, la más poderosa y la más maltratada
En Latinoamérica conviven el maltrato y el liderazgo femenino más asentado
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In the same countries that recorded the highest rates of domestic violence murders and the highest rates of teenage pregnancy, women have made the most spectacular levels of political participation by women in the world. Latin America, a continent marked by inequality, but also for economic success in crisis, abused their wives and, while these are reaching a share of power unknown even in most European countries, where, for example have not yet met a president or prime minister-elect, something that this area of the planet was already inaugurated in 1990 with Violeta Chamorro in Nicaragua and now is becoming a fact little less than ordinary.
At this time, 40% of the population of the American continent is ruled by women: Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Cristina Fernandez in Argentina and Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla. It is postulated with potential to serve as president of the republic the Mexican ruling party, PAN, Josefina Vazquez Mota. Should win the election in July, the percentage of American citizens governed by mandatory would rise to 60%. Again, the high contrast would be more exposed in Latin America with Mexico as a country where there are still States that justify honor killings, in which there are areas where women are persecuted, tortured and brutally murdered in covens of blood that are devastating a large part of the country.
If Josefina Vazquez Mota won in Mexico, there were four presidents
Apart from the extreme violence that has engulfed the drug trafficking and corruption to some regions, Mexico recorded in 2009 a total of 1,858 murders macho, a number of National Women's Institute that is not yet in official statistics collected by ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean). In these statistics are observed high rates of death of women by their partner or former partner, with impressive records in countries like St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic.
In Mexico, domestic violence joins the murder of women outside the family in what is known as femicide, a phenomenon that shocked the world and by which the Government of the republic has been condemned for not pursue guilty or protect victims adequately by the Ibero-American Court of Human Rights. In that country women today enjoy an unquestionable electoral pull, why Josefina Vazquez Mota seems to be a duty to warn: "I do not want to become president just because they are women, but for what I propose."
The continent has the highest death rates for domestic violence
What is the reason that America has a contrast so pronounced on the status of women? "Ah, that's the million dollar question," replies Maria Jesus Aranda, exdefensora the people of Navarre and gender consultant now the Segib (Secretaría General Iberoamericana). It's the big question because Aranda does not believe sexist patterns in Latin America are different from the rest of the world. Notes the high dropout rate, high maternal mortality (logically related to that lack of education) and the absence of sufficient data to know in depth, for example, the phenomenon of femicide, the Segib being analyzed. There is also no comprehensive data yet to know whether violence against women is increasing or, conversely, decreases. So far, about femicide is only a snapshot, but some analyzes indicate that there is a significant improvement, especially in the so-called black triangle (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala), zone (along with Mexico and Costa Rica) in the that there has been a booming regional market of exploitation and trafficking.
Along with social realities of a frightening rawness, data very positive move for hope. Aranda talks about improving education in Latin America. Maria Emma Mejia, Colombia's former minister of Foreign Affairs and Education and now secretary general of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) also points out. "In higher education has surpassed men. 53% of college students are women. These are occupying important positions of power and when it does occur the most important legislative changes. The case of Michelle Bachelet in Chile is exemplary in this regard. During his tenure were made unprecedented achievements such as the right to divorce. "
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Bachelet, after a long battle, also achieved the approval of the use of morning-after pill to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies, a phenomenon that hampers deeply female life expectations. But the defeats of the Chilean mandatory as to improve the living conditions of the female population is also sounded. During the campaign, Rousseff gave an interview to Marie Claire in stating that abortion is "a public health issue," adding that there are too many women in Brazil die from abortion in precarious circumstances. The pressure of Catholics and evangelical churches forced him to recant and renounce any plans to decriminalize abortion in a subcontinent where there is only time law in Cuba and Mexico City and in which cases of teenagers raped and forced to be mothers are not extraordinary. It happens, but not only in Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, where you can not even resort to abortion in cases of rape. In Argentina, Cristina Fernandez has managed to legalize gay marriage, but Parliament finally rejected the law of time that would have allowed abortion and stem the bleeding because of illegal abortions. In Latin America 4,000 women die each year in the four million illegal abortions were recorded. Teenage pregnancy rates are very high. Those of Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama (the highest in Latin America) almost 10-fold those recorded in Spain or Portugal, according to the Observatory for Gender Equality of ECLAC.
Behind the yoke that oppresses Latin America is the strong alliance between the Church and the ruling classes. The social pressure is so strong that, according to Clarín journalist Matilde Sánchez (El Pais article of February 10, 2011), leads to the paradox that women have power, but do not enjoy a level of genuine social equality because the conservative structure of families and the role of women within them.
Abortions abound
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To Walda Barrios-Klee, adviser to the National Union of Guatemalan Women, the extraordinary violence against women would be attributable, however, his greater independence. His biggest role in the areas of power, according to Maria Emma Mejia, is due to a strong political will (11 countries have established quotas for women) and the peculiar strength of Latin America. "I remember during the peace negotiations [in Colombia] had much contact with the countryside and it is true that there at first that was taken out of school girls, but nearly all of the social leaders against drug traffickers , for example, were women, "says Mejia.
Against Corruption (main generator of extreme violence) that plagues some areas of Latin America, women are perceived by the populations of different countries as good managers. Surveys carried out by ECLAC show a favorable opinion of female leadership, trying to stop, however, the major parties, according to those same surveys. "They are perceived as more effective, more committed and more comprehensive," Mejia points out, "something I believe is universal and I see also in the leadership of Angela Merkel in Germany, for example."
They can also be ruthless against irregularities, and in this connection uses the example of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, which has stood the test difficult to do without during his first stint in office up to seven ministers accused of corruption.
ラテンアメリカの女性は、最も強力で最も乱用
ラテンアメリカのライブ虐待と女性のリーダーシップでより多くの定住
女性を殺害することの名誉
ガブリエラカナスマドリッド7 MAR 2012 - 午後10時11分CET
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