156 Women Killed in Guatemala This Year
At least 156 women were killed in Guatemala in the first quarter this year, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The document, drafted by the Guatemala's Congressional Committee on Women, said that crimes against women increased by 24.8 percent against the same period last year.

The victims, with ages ranging between 16 and 40 years old, were mostly tortured and abused.

President of the Congressional Committee on Women, Nineth Montenegro, lamented that progress has not been made in most of the investigations of these murder cases.

The country ranks second worldwide among those with the highest rate of feminicide, with 572 cases registered last year, according to Guatemala's Information Reports Center, which has been in charge of research about the issue for several years.