Talk:2017 Guatemala orphanage fire

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The '' 'Tragedy of the Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home' 'was an incendiary catastrophe occurred in this youth hostel, located in the municipality of San José Pinula, in the department of Guatemala [Republic of Guatemala], March 8, 2017. 

Background
Since 2010, there have been reports of sexual violence and a possible network of human trafficking in the Safe Home. Due to constant leakage and poor quality of food, the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH) had requested precautionary measures before the [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] since November of that year, but they had not been attended to.

On November 2, 2016, the PDH verified the deficiencies in the "Virgen de la Assunción" Safe Home and alerted the following:


 * Indications of abuse of adolescents by the monitors.
 * Possible signs of recruiting adolescents for trafficking.
 * Poor infrastructure
 * The recommendations made by the PDH in 2013 had not been complied with.
 * Presence of fifteen male adolescents with pending criminal charges who were in the Safe Home because they were under the protection of the State.
 * Insufficient security personnel: only two agents of the National Civil Police of Guatemala (PNC) and two private security guards, all men.  

All these suggestions were not addressed by the competent authorities.

The Facts
During the night of March 7, when the center housed about seven hundred inmates there was a massive flight; There were not only children and adolescents who were victims of domestic abuse, but also young people who were held for various crimes, especially extortion, belonging to the delinquency gangs Mara Salvatrucha and El Barrio 18    According to the report presented by the director of the Secretariat of Social Welfare, At 2:00 pm when a group of young people climbed the roofs and using metal pieces threatened the guardians and keepers; Taking advantage of the confusion, about eighty-five inmates escaped, which were recaptured mostly by the PNC.  }}

The official of Police Station 13 of the National Civil Police, Wilson López, reported that he personally called the president of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, to warn him of the problems that occurred in the place; Around 10:00 pm on Tuesday 7 March called the president, but Carlos Rodas, director of the Secretariat of Social Welfare, did not turn the necessary instructions to avoid the mutiny that occurred.  

Supposedly, on the morning of March 8, the children tried to protest the sexual and physical abuse they suffered in the Safe Home, taking advantage of the fact that [International Women's Day] was celebrated on that day; But the situation went out of control and fifty-one of them were locked in a room of 4 X 4 m². The chaos was even greater when a fire originated inside the room when some mats were burned < Ref name = cries /> and the young girls were trapped in the room without chances of being rescued in time.

Numerous injured victims were rushed to Guatemala City hospitals with second- and third-degree burns, while at least another nineteen died at the scene because of the severity of their wounds. /> In medical reports, most adolescents were admitted with low blood pressure, massive fluid loss from burns and in an unconscious state. As for the victims in the facilities of the Safe Home, National Institute of Forensic Science (Inacif) certified that the cause of death was carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.

As of March 10, thirty-seven deceased girls, aged between 14 and 17, had been reported, and the names of the survivors of the fire were still unknown, while relatives sought information on their whereabouts and situation. On the same day, it was also reported that the nine minor survivors who were transferred to the hospital were transferred to the hospital, A house home in Quetzaltenango were in gestation state.

Consequences
Analysts and human rights defenders condemned the negligence of the state and officials - including the Presidency of the Republic, the Attorney General's Office (PGN) and the Secretariat of Social Welfare (SBS) - for not To have heeded the denunciations presented at the time about abuses of all kinds against the minors detained in the center.   His part, the PGN, the SBS and the presidential spokesman declared that the responsibility was in the courts of justice.

Bills of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala requested the dismissal of Carlos Rodas, for direct responsibility and negligence. For its part, the [Public Ministry] An investigation of the facts, based on the assumption that a criminal act occurred that resulted in the murder of the victims burned; The procedure included gathering evidence at the facilities where the tragedy occurred and obtaining the images of thirty-four crames installed in the place.  

The growing number of fatalities - a dead person killed on March 12 - outraged the population of [Guatemala City], who initiated concentrations at the [Plaza de la Constitución (Guatemala City) | Plaza de la Constitución] ] To express their repudiation of what they considered negligence, corruption and ineptitude on the part of Guatemalan government authorities.   The same day it was learned that the director of the Secretariat of Social Welfare had submitted his resignation, although it was not accepted by the ruler, and that he had been rooted by the courts to face his responsibilities. Around Of two hundred people walked the streets of the city reading the names and ages of the dead girls to the Plaza where there were more demonstrators; The cries that were most heard were: "it was the State", "it was not an accident, it was an execution" and "the only accident is this President", referring to the president Jimmy Morales.  

2021 BBC article
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58076664 Intralexical (talk) 14:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

"See also"
Are the 2015 Guatemala landslide and Burning of the Spanish Embassy really relevant to this article? It seems overly broad to just include any geological disaster, and an unrelated act of war from over four decades ago. Intralexical (talk) 14:24, 9 August 2021 (UTC)