Unbearable crime situation in Guatemalan public transportation
Amazingly enough, crime keeps on rising in my beloved Guate.
The other day I read somewhere that there have been at least 300,200 public transportation assaults this year. 300,200!!!??? Unbelievable.
I've been aware of the serious security problem the public
transportation in Guatemala has for a long time. I mean, I've lived
there most of my life and have used it only twice and in very "secure" (if that word has any meaning what so ever) districts, for very short distances. And even then, I felt scared.
I can't stop thinking about the guatemalan people that HAVE TO use public buses everyday. Most of the people, don't have a choice: they have to take the "camionetas" to get to work, to go to study, to get back home. It must be awful having to expose your own security -even your own life- everyday, and even worse for those who have to travel with children, being forced to expose them too.
What kind of world are we guatemalans living in? With women being raped, people's heads strolling on the floor, children being stolen and everyone being oppressed, robbed and even killed EVERYDAY on PUBLIC BUSES!!!!!!!!??????????
Where's this people's freedom then? Who protects them? Who takes responsibility for what happens to them everyday at least 200 hundred times (!?!?!?!?!?!?)? NO ONE. They're completely defenseless. It seems untrue, but it's pure-hard-everyday-guatemalan reality. At least for most of the guatemalan people.
What do we do? Nothing. Or at least not enough. I don't have any answers, but I know that we urgently need to wake up: (shouting) WAKE UP GUATEMALA!!! Ignoring the fact that our situation has gone far off limits does us no good. That's a proven fact. Now...let's start by talking. Let's open our eyes and ears, let's raise our voices, let's start caring about the people around us.
No one ever got anything without demanding for it. Or at least not in Guatemala.
The other day I read somewhere that there have been at least 300,200 public transportation assaults this year. 300,200!!!??? Unbelievable.
I've been aware of the serious security problem the public
transportation in Guatemala has for a long time. I mean, I've lived
there most of my life and have used it only twice and in very "secure" (if that word has any meaning what so ever) districts, for very short distances. And even then, I felt scared.
I can't stop thinking about the guatemalan people that HAVE TO use public buses everyday. Most of the people, don't have a choice: they have to take the "camionetas" to get to work, to go to study, to get back home. It must be awful having to expose your own security -even your own life- everyday, and even worse for those who have to travel with children, being forced to expose them too.
What kind of world are we guatemalans living in? With women being raped, people's heads strolling on the floor, children being stolen and everyone being oppressed, robbed and even killed EVERYDAY on PUBLIC BUSES!!!!!!!!??????????
Where's this people's freedom then? Who protects them? Who takes responsibility for what happens to them everyday at least 200 hundred times (!?!?!?!?!?!?)? NO ONE. They're completely defenseless. It seems untrue, but it's pure-hard-everyday-guatemalan reality. At least for most of the guatemalan people.
What do we do? Nothing. Or at least not enough. I don't have any answers, but I know that we urgently need to wake up: (shouting) WAKE UP GUATEMALA!!! Ignoring the fact that our situation has gone far off limits does us no good. That's a proven fact. Now...let's start by talking. Let's open our eyes and ears, let's raise our voices, let's start caring about the people around us.
No one ever got anything without demanding for it. Or at least not in Guatemala.
rocio - 13. Jun, 19:39
