In the first Feminist Encuentro Latin American and Caribbean held in Bogota in 1981, declared Nov. 25 as "International Day of No Violence Against Women ". It was decided to set this day as the November 25, 1960 were killed at the hands of a command of the Military Intelligence Service of the Trujillo dictatorship, the Mirabal sisters. The Dominican Republic and had three opponents of the regime and that day was marked to require the cessation of violence against women.
Nearly 30 years after this first encounter feminist everything has changed so that some things just are on the same site. Although the post-dictatorship Chilean government has opened its arms to women through SERNAM, blogs and web pages through which passes the unofficial we can see how the state also holds out the luma .
a couple of weeks ago http://paismapuche.org/?tag=comunidad-pancho-curamil reported on the brutal beating he had received a Mapuche woman in own house Pancho Curamil community at the hands of police. The blows had been such that the lady, 8 months pregnant, arrived at the hospital where doctors planned to perform an emergency cesarean.
about the same time we knew this news, we saw the new campaign SERNAM: "Faggot is who strikes a woman" in style macho enough to vindicate the traditional role of the stronger sex and invalidate homosexual relationships, reminds men that: one that is well positioned do not hit women and only has sex with women . A "man-man" knows its protective role and does not sleep with men.
While the state on the one hand, proposes a campaign enact as unacceptable violence of men over women -the couple, domestic, domestic-, second, that State, endorse the police violence on women labeled as "other women, indigenous women, poor women, rural women, women of other .
L operate with authorities as uneven balance when nominating the violence in Chile. The State, through its representatives, is outraged and denounced, when a man hits a woman, her women, your home, your property. But the state does not know / no answer when uses terror to manage political mobilization. Violence exercised with impunity while making violence against women a private matter. This institutional schizophrenia sits two types of women: those that can not be beaten (for family reasons) and who can be (for political reasons.) Thus, the old patriarchal idea of \u200b\u200bconservatism, is imposed in the eyes of all: women State protects you .... as long as you stay at home .
Contrary to what occurred in the community Curamil (and what happens daily in other Mapuche communities) think the police action as a excess is not only naive, but also minimizes an action that had a target (generate a demonstrative effect and disrupt Mapuche mobilization) and was planned to introduce the fear among opponents. This act unthinkable in a state law that resembles the state terrorism of torture, executions and disappearances during the dictatorship, warning not only about the re-emergence of state violence as a strategy for managing political conflict, it marks a dangerous precedent that could naturalize and normalize the use of repression, for democracy now, control the population.
The state seems to understand violence against women as a problem located in heterosexual relationships whose referent is only the family and private space. Thus, invisible institutional violence and rule out the possibility of understanding violence against women as a political issue. From this view emerges SERNAM last season. A campaign that not only reinforces the hegemony hetero on how to be men and women, but it does not challenge the structure that supports the relationships between men and women and say nothing about the violence state, thereby legitimizing police violence towards women
"The police are fags or operate under the logic of state terrorism?," A man who hits a woman is a poor man who did not understand the rules or an apprentice who has reproduced copy perfectly the hierarchy between him and women?
The dual strategy of the State with such other measures rod violence he exercised and that exercised by individuals on women, enables the beating of a Mapuche woman is encapsulated as an episode in the so-called "Mapuche conflict." It also allows that when a man hits a woman in private, the fact is encapsulated in the so-called "domestic violence." Thus the discourse and practice get separate state waters: first it seems that there is a political and ethnic problem, while another found a non-issue political and gender. Thus, it ignores the question: criticism of the system of social relations that places women, homosexuals, indigenous and other minority group marked as , expense in a situation with men, whites, hetereosexuales and rich. This system enables a man to beat his women and that the State violates women with impunity.
After 50 years of femicide in the Dominican Republic is necessary to repeat that violence against women is always political violence.
Signed:
Vaccari Pamela Jimenez, UAB Social Psychology Doctoral Student
Krisna Tolentino
Isabel Aguilera
Cecilia Bustos Ibarra, Doctoral Student in Sociology UAB
Ramírez Andrea González-Doctoral student, UAB Prehistoric Archaeology
Elena Morán
Paola González Rozas, Doctoral Student Social Psych UAB.
Manuela Pérez Rodríguez
María Angélica Benavides
Beatriz Cantero Riveros, Science Education PhD, UAB
Ximena Cuadra, master's student in Sociology, UB
Gladys Astete Cereceda, PhD in Education, UAB.
Romero Lorena Andrea Millar
Dayana Luna Reyes
Rayen Rovira Rubio
Rayen Rovira Rubio
