Medellín Mayor's Office increases the reward to clarify murders of members of the LGBTI+ community

The LGBTI + population of Medellín is frightened by a series of systematic murders against their community, so the mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, decided to increase the reward from 40 million to 80 million for those who provide information about the one or those guilty of the heinous crimes.

“A special team is created for clarification and work for the LGBTI population. For all cases of homicide in this population, we went from 40 million to 80 million, which is the same amount we have for femicide,” said the mayor after a meeting with members of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Security, according to El Espectador, has appointed a specialized prosecutor to investigate the five murders that mourn the capital of Antioquia and the Police will have an investigative group for the same purpose.

An analysis of the progress of the Sexual Diversity and Gender Identities Management showed the lack of coordination with the different secretariats so that the entity's actions and strategies effectively meet the objectives.

Likewise, the lobbyists agreed to express the importance of the issue because it allows us to know the scope of public policy among the diverse population, reflecting on what history has been and the evolution that puts it on the public agenda as a relevant topic for the social development of the city.

Finally, they proposed the creation of a technical round table to continue to highlight gaps in different issues in this sector and to create the necessary strategies to address problems and to mainstream actions with other departments to ensure respect for the diverse population.

For her part, Manager of Sexual Diversities and Gender Identities, Olga Patricia Llano, presented the work they have been doing, stating that the main objective of the unit is to coordinate, implement and articulate policies, programs and projects, and to guarantee the rights of the LBGT population and emphasized the work in relation to emotional accompaniment for the recognition of these people in society.

He concluded by stating that, by becoming a management, it allowed the association of more people to effectively impact the diverse population and make contributions with anthropological perspectives to build other imaginaries in the territory and create the strategies that are being implemented.

The outlook of rights for the LGBTI+ community in Colombia is bleak, according to a report released by the Ombudsman's Office a few days after the country's Pride Day is commemorated.

In the period 2020-2021, 98 people from this community were killed, as reported by the Office of the Ombudsman, and for the director of the entity, Carlos Camargo Assis, “it is unacceptable that acts of violence continue to be committed against this population”.

The detailed statistics indicate that last year there were 77 homicides and femicides of this population.

In addition, most of these acts of violence were recorded in departments of the Colombian Caribbean, with 28 cases; followed by Antioquia, with 15; Valle del Cauca, with 8; Eje Cafetero, with 7, and in other areas of the country a total of 19 cases.

Of these victims, those who suffered most severely from prejudice violence were transgender women (27 cases); gay men (14); lesbian women (8), one transgender man and in 27 cases sexual orientation and gender identity were not identified.

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