In March, the government received over 26,000 reports of domestic violence, the highest the hotline has recorded since it was recorded. However, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador dismissed the announcement and claimed the majority of the calls were fake.
Dead Guatemalan women are being dumped in alleyways, dropped by the roadside, and deserted in parks, bodies bound by trash bags, plastic blankets, or left bare for the world to see, abandoned by the wayside like discarded trash.