June 27, 2023, 11:10 PM
June 27, 2023, 11:10 PM
The senator for the Creemos alliance, Erik Morón, asked the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP) to immediately declare a national emergency due to the increase in cases of femicides and infanticides that have been registered in the country and that shock the public.
“I ask you Mr. President (Chamber of Deputies) immediately and urgently declare a national emergency, there is an absence of God, a lack of principles, there is a social crisis in the nucleus of the family. What do we do? We are going to wait a year for there to be an interpellation,” Morón declared.
This Tuesday, the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Life reported that so far this year there have been 55 acts of violence in Bolivia, of which 45 correspond to cases of femicide and 10 to infanticidemost of these registered in the trunk axis, in the departments of Santa Cruz, La Paz and Cochabamba.
He recalled that to lower the rates of violence repeatedly proposed chemical castration towards those accused of rape, the accumulation of sentences for repeat offenders in femicides and sexual violence, however, was not heard.
He pointed out that it is modify the laws and the Criminal Code to advance on these issuesin order to care for women and children.
“Surely many will say, what happens with the human rights of the rapists. I ask you, what about the human rights of those women victims of femicides and children who do not have a voice to defend them? This has no political color, ”she criticized.
Morón questioned that there are judges who imprison opponents and citizens who think differently from the government’s political project, but assured that they are the same ones who release accused rapists.
The senator announced that this Wednesday, June 28, at 09:30, he will start a crusade in Plaza Murillo to collect sign from parents with the purpose of entering the Legislative Assembly a Draft Chemical Castration Law and the extension of penalties for feminicides and rapists.
According to the report, the cases of feminicide were registered in: Santa Cruz, with 14 cases; followed by La Paz, with 10; Cochabamba, seven: Potosí, with six cases; Tarija, with three; and Beni with two cases, while Oruro reported one case, as did Pando and Chuquisaca.
According to the comparative record of feminicide events reported in the same period from January 1 to June 27, in 2020 there were 59 cases, in 2021 60 were reported, and in 2022 47 were reported. and in 2023, a total of 45 victims.
Of the 10 cases of infanticides registered in Bolivia, youres occurred in the department of Santa Cruzthree in La Paz, two in Cochabamba, one case in Oruro and another case in Potosí, while the rest of the departments have no facts.
