Feminist groups, including one with the curious name of “youth group”, paraded through the Historic Center to commemorate International Women’s Day. The demonstration was used by groups that again vandalized the Santa Clara church, as well as the San Martín bakery and restaurant, both emblematic buildings of the Historic Center that are totally violated and unprotected from the damage that these fundamentalist groups carry out against them..
Roxana Orantes Cordova
Once again, the historic Sixth Avenue in zone one was the target of vandal attacks by groups of women who identify themselves as feminists, even though they act as vandals of a rare fundamentalist cult whose sole objective was to damage walls and historical infrastructure, without any demand in in favor of women and without the slightest connection to the historical fact that originated the commemoration of the date as Working Women’s Day.
As in previous years, hooded women damaged the wall of Santa Clara and attacked San Martín, where they even started a fire that was put out by firefighters.
Abortion fundamentalists and polyamory
“Death to the Church” is one of the slogans that can be read on the façade of Santa Clara, a temple dating from 1774 and it has a long history, valuable for those who respect and seek to preserve the national heritage.
The same is true of the old Casa Pvón, where the Diario de Centro América was founded, where José Milla y Vidaurre worked, to later house two banks and finally, in 2016, it was conditioned for the San Martín restaurant.
These historical precedents and the need to protect heritage are irrelevant issues given the impetus of neofeminism, which, dressed up and consistent with its fundamentalist condition, undoes everything that is not related to its fundamental slogans: abortion, “polyamory” and the various expressions of the LGBTQ+ ideology they hold.
After the various expressions of fierce hatred against the “patriarchy”, the vandal groups, as well as those of activists, withdrew, leaving the Historic Center the traces of their violent passage, which portrays the fundamentalist character of their movement.
Distant origin and no connection with current fundamentalism
In 1875, hundreds of women textile workers at a New York factory went on strike to demand equal wages with men. These protests were suppressed and ended with hundreds of workers dead.
At the origin of March 8 as International Women’s Day, different events and protests took place, which concluded in the International Conference of Socialist Women (1907), with the proposal of the German Marxist Clara Zetkin to commemorate March 8 and establish the Socialist International of Women, which, among others, sought the right to vote for women.
Between the objectives that women pursued a little over 100 years ago and the current demands, which combine vandalism, intolerance and victimization, there seems to be light years.
Acts of vandalism against historical heritage and private property (not only San Martín and the church were vandalized) have an effect quite opposite to that sought by these groups, generally made up of workers from NGOs financed from abroad and who have very little in common with the average Guatemalan worker.
Among others, the employees of San Martín and the administrative and customer service workers in the shops of the Historic Center, affected by a delirious horde that seems to have destruction among its main objectives.