Two Nicaraguan women murdered, one assaulted and a missing minor make up the count of the acts of sexist violence that were recorded in the week in which the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is commemorated.
The body of Angélica María Lino Zepeda, 39, was found on Sunday, November 10, in an alley located half a block from the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) of Bilwi, in the Northern Caribbean of Nicaragua.
Relatives of the woman explained, in an interview with Article 66that several drug users were detained by the Police as suspects of the crime, since it is presumed that Lino Zepeda was forced to enter that alley, where they stripped her of her valuables and her clothes.
They announced that the Police have informed them that a struggle between a group of men and a woman was filmed on the CSE cameras, so they presume that it was the moment when Lino Zepeda was attacked to the point of death.
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Angélica María Lino Zepeda leaves two children orphaned and is originally from the Wisconsin community, also in the Northern Caribbean of Nicaragua. She will be buried in Bilwi.
A feminist, consulted by this media outlet, stated that, precisely on these dates, acts of violence against women “increase.”
«In recent years it has practically become a trend that women, girls, adolescents, on festive or commemorative dates, are violated in some way, the records are clear, they show increases in cases of robberies with force, with excessive violence against women, vicious murders and it should be an exhortation to these authorities – if we can call them that – who continue to do nothing about these increases that are seen year after year,” reproached the rights defender. of women.
Femicide of a Nicaraguan in Costa Rica
The Venancias, a feminist collective abroad, through social networks also denounced the crime against a Nicaraguan woman living in Costa Rica until now identified only by the last name Chacón Carrión.
The woman was murdered on November 8, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, with a knife inside her home, located in La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
The victim’s body, the defenders said, had “several wounds in the stomach and arms and it is presumed that it was her partner who killed her.”
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Chacón Carrión, according to local media, worked as a masseuse and tourist guide in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, and the authorities of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) are already “doing investigations” to find the perpetrator(s) of the crime.
The defenders of Las Venancias said that “it hurts to see how every day the number of migrant women who are murdered by their partners abroad increases,” in addition, they demanded that the Costa Rican authorities “clarify the circumstances of the crime and make the guilty pay.”
Violence in assault against women
On the other hand, on November 9, citizen Gladis Canales, 34, was a victim of the sexist violence and crime that prevails in Nicaragua. The woman was stabbed by subjects, still unidentified, who robbed her of 200 dollars in the SOS Children’s Villages sector of Estelí.
Canales had to be transferred to a hospital, where fortunately she is recovering, according to local media.
The Venancias pointed out that “at this time of year-end there is an exponential increase in common crime that sees the most vulnerable female victims” and demanded “more citizen security and that justice be done for the victims.”
Between January and October of this year, according to Catholics for the Right to Decide (CDD), at least 63 women were victims of femicide inside and outside of Nicaragua. In 2023, according to the same organization, the country will add 74 victims of this crime.
