Paraguay 2021 Balance: Denial and authoritarianism, government policies for LGBT+
Although the challenges for LGBT groups are growing, this year they renewed their struggle and resistance.
Although the challenges for LGBT groups are growing, this year they renewed their struggle and resistance.
Gabriela Cabrera, a 23-year-old trans woman, died under circumstances that have yet to be clarified by the Paraguayan justice system. The initial hypothesis put forward by the forensic doctor was that it was a suicide, but her colleagues at Casa Diversa are demanding a thorough investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office and that justice be served.
Erika Tatiana Martínez García owned a small business where she sold drinks and food and was also a member of the National Party to which the current Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández belongs.
This is the third transfemicide reported this year in Colima, western Mexico. But the Attorney General's Office is not investigating it as a hate crime.
Ivonne, a 32-year-old trans woman, was tortured and murdered in her beauty salon in Iztapalapa. One person has been arrested.
In an unprecedented decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the State of Honduras guilty of the murder of trans activist Vicky Hernández.
A man was looking for drugs and when he couldn't find any, he shot him.
Power was shot in the back and killed on November 5 of last year, at the door of the place where she lived.
Zashy, a 27-year-old Salvadoran trans woman and member of the Perla de Oriente Collective, was shot in the back on Sunday.
Nelly García, a trans woman who worked as a sex worker, was brutally murdered in the early hours of Monday, December 28, in Poza Rica, a municipality in the northern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz.