Women Violence in Mexico
Violence against women has been very rampant and common in many places around the globe. This paper will denounce the barbarity against women, especially in Mexico. This is by speaking out for the sake of the most vulnerable and breaking many people’s silence on this issue of cruelty and extreme violence against women in Mexico. To prove that, we have a look at a research carried out which found that 38.4 percent of Mexican ladies have experienced harassment personally, and 17.3 percent have encountered physical maltreatment in their life eventually. What’s more, the National Women Center established that 47% of ladies between the ages of 15 and 34 saw, in any event, one episode of maltreatment over the most recent a year. This describes the circumstance of ladies in present-day Mexico. The following paragraphs will address this pressing issue of women’s violence, therefore, blaming the government together with the male populace for the unending women violence (Kramer, 1985). I will also prove that they are no improvements that show efforts of trying to combat this issue.
Many sources have come up giving an insight into Mexican women’s rights and how they live in Mexico. These articles present very well women who are struggling to fit in Latin America safely. However, these books will be of great help during the writing of this paper because they express the representation of women in political issues. Despite all the beauty of Mexico City, we find out that there are lots of chaos in the area, which leads to people living in increased fear and terror. This is inclusive of all, may it be the men or even the females. The reason for this is because they are very many powerful cartels who are untouchable in Mexico. These are the people who commit crimes without fear of anything because they have the whole police administration in their palms.
That issue leads us to our first clear argument on how the administration is not being responsible for looking out for the women in the society. To prove this point, we have a look at the police officers, border patrol officers, and even the political leaders who are supposed to protect the citizens and ensure that these inhuman acts are stopped. However, instead of doing that, they seem to be working with these cartels to help them commit these crimes. This is by them receiving money in return to allow the cartels to carry on with their businesses (Freund, 1915). Therefore, this leads to an increase in women’s abuse in Mexico by them being kidnapped and trafficked to be sold. On the other hand, we find the patrol team along the Mexican border that is supposed to ensure that they are no illegal entry and exit from Mexico. If this team worked right, they would capture and put into light the abuse being done to women. However, they also are very corrupt and work together with the cartels in the illegal trafficking of women (Ruhl, 2011). Therefore, the abuse of women through trafficking will never cease in Mexico.
To cover this paper adequately, I will divide it into four different sections, each with different views on women violence in Mexico. The first section will provide an overview of the lives of Mexican women in the past, explaining their current status in Mexico. This section look at the women’s advances in the twentieth century in Mexico. Then, it will present violence based on one gender and how they impact the lives of women in Mexico. Through that, the amount of crime committed against women will be brought to light and easily understood. The lives of Mexican women in the past were so small, and therefore they were only viewed as housewives and were to serve their husbands. The status of the women before was defined within the family and community context meaning that they were viewed so lowly in the community. They were not at all allowed to work in places away from home. Therefore, through this, the women of Mexico at that time could face a lot of mistreatment and abuse from their husbands who would at times beat them up. This made the women to serve their husbands and the community with fear that if anything happened, they would be beaten up, and there is no law to protect them from it.
However, as time moved on and centuries, we come to find that there have been great improvements in the lives of Mexican women. This is due to urbanization, which has revolutionized the world, thus providing equal social and economic opportunities for everyone, even those in rural areas. Therefore, in the twenty-first century, Mexican women have had great strides to a better social status and also equality in legal issues. It was then that they were allowed to participate in elections showing that the change was now being embraced in the New Mexico. They even later started working in factories and getting jobs that placed them on the same level as men in Mexico. This shows that there have been lots of improvements in modern Mexico and violence against women. This is because, at the moment, there are clearly defined laws that protect them from any kind of abuse. These types of abuse include; domestic violence and workplace violence, sexual violence, abuse due to human trafficking, and many others (Risley, 2010). These kinds of violence against the women show the rate at which they were being abused in Mexico during the past (Klugman, 2017).
The second section argues that crimes against Mexican women will never reduce due to high amounts of gender perception. In this section, I will describe gender discrimination concepts, thereby presenting Machismo and its implications in the traditions of the Mexicans. After that, I will prove the tendency that sons have towards following the paths of their fathers, therefore, reciprocating their behaviors, and this makes it almost impossible to stop women violence in Mexico. Gender discrimination concepts refers to actions of denying someone opportunities and privileges because of their gender (Kite, & Whitley Jr, 2016). This leads us to Machismo, whereby it is the concept of associating ourselves with a sense of masculinity, which makes a person feel manly and more reliant on man’s responsibility in the family (Pascoe, & Bridges, 2016). This makes it hard for abuse against women to reduce, especially in Mexico. This is because the men feel that they are more responsible and should be the ones heading the family and not women. Therefore, the rate of violence continues and makes it difficult for women violence.
The other issue on the sons following their fathers’ paths is very vital in this women abuse thing in Mexico. This concept is argued that during the growth of sons, they get to experience their father’s brutality and abuse on their mothers and sister’s and therefore when they grow up, they have that bitterness inside them. Therefore, when they get their own families too, they end up doing the same to their women. This is because they want to feel superior just like their fathers and therefore end up practicing and carrying the women abuse thing into the next generation. Consequently, it becomes impossible to eradicate women’s abuse in Mexico. The points discussed above are all reasons why women’s violence is not ending in Mexico. This means that it keeps on moving from generation to generation based on the two concepts explained; therefore it becomes difficult to eliminate it.
The third section argues that there are not enough laws put in place to eliminate women’s violence in Mexico. It will first look at the criminal code of Mexico with regard to laws used by the government to protect the women from abuse. Later on, it will look at the judicial system, thereby investigating the work of the police, judges, and lawyers in protecting abused women. After that, I will present the various cases of femicide victims in Mexico. Through all this, we should be able to prove that if there were no changes in laws, getting rid of women’s violence would be impossible in Mexico. Due to the high rate of corruption in Mexico, we find that there are no laws that protect women from abuse. This is due to corruption and opposition to democratization by some leaders because they fear losing their powers and their secrets being exposed (Usselmann, 2014). Therefore, this has resulted in Mexico lacking clear laws that would protect women against violence. This leads into the judicial system, the police, and judges becoming corrupt, meaning that they end up receiving bribes to protect the criminals. Therefore, the abuse of women continues more and more in Mexico.
The other case highlights the number of victims that have succumbed to women violence in Mexico. The highest instance ever recorded was in 2019, when 35000 people were murdered in Mexico, with approximately 10 percent of the murders being femicide related (López, 2019). This means that it was the murder of women. This number is said to have increased compared to the number registered in 2015, although they are still some states which do not count femicide cases in Mexico. Therefore, it is claimed that Mexico records approximately ten women deaths every day. Even with all these deaths, there still are no clear defined laws to protect these women. On the other hand, the police officers are seen not to be assisting in preventing the spread because they are bribed by cartels that do women trafficking and different types of trafficking like drug trafficking hence turning a blind eye to the situation (Morris, 2012). Therefore, from the above, we learn that it is impossible to end women violence in Mexico if they are no laws put in place to protect them.
The fourth section shows that women violence issue is not an urgent concern to the government. Therefore, I will present the main concerns of a good government, which, in the long run, shows the government’s policies that improve the lives of women and protect them when being abused. Due to this, we will prove that violence ending in Mexico is very difficult because the government is not doing enough on this issue. Generally, a good government ensures that the economy of its’ country is maintained and that they is peace and harmony in the nation. The government also ensures that all public institutions, resources, and affairs are properly managed. Therefore, the issue of women’s violence ends up not falling among the governments’ urgent matters. However, every government has those social concerns that it addresses. Through these issues, that is when the government gets to put policies that improve the lives of women. One of the topics is gender inequality in the country. This issue makes the government to come up with policies that will stop it, and therefore, this might lead to the help of women when they are abused due to their gender, especially in the workplace. The government still does so little to protect them, and therefore the cases of violence in Mexico will be difficult to end.
As seen from the paragraphs above, it is right to conclude that women violence in Mexico is a very rampant issue, and it will be challenging and almost impossible to stop it. However, the government should intervene in this issue and make good laws that protect women from abuse in the community.
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