UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Three oil ra inbows swirl around the lukewarm waters of wells in Cobán. A shaft of 75 meters opens up in the neighborhood of San Antonio. The body of a woman is discovered in a hotel in Zone 1, her back bearing the death threat “to all sluts.” Two hundred and fifty families protest in front of Congress against being evicted from their land. In a presidential debate, the “firm hand” calls Colón a “limp wrist.” The legs of a woman, cut into 8 pieces, are left in a cardboard box in Zone 3. Ash rains down on the capital after a volcanic eruption. Foot soldiers of the Salvatrucha gang assault a bus of tourists and kill all the employees. In congress the winner of the Noble Peace prize is spit upon by a FRG sympathizer. Unemployed workers start day 3 of their hunger strike downtown. A group of protesters are electrocuted by plainclothes policemen in front of the U.S. embassy. In a tortillería in the city center, an indigenous women has her baby stolen. In Totonicapán a group of restless men burn the town hall and two police cars, while in Chimaltenango a woman accused of stealing a child is burned alive. A shop owner in the neighborhood of Verbena is shot and killed by gang members for refusing to pay a 100 quetzales “tax,” while on Elena St. a bus driver is shot for the same reason...