World Picture Network
20 November, 2006
Public prosecutor's officials examine the body of Maira Esperanza Gutiérrez (42), who has been killed by 16 shots fired by an unidentified man, in what is part of a rising wave of assaults against women. Perpetrators of what came to be called 'femicide' appeared immune from punishment, with only 14 out of nearly 2,000 murder cases being resolved since separate records for women victims began in 2001.
Walter Astrada
Walter Astrada was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his career as a staff photographer at the local La Nacion newspaper. After a formative trip through South A...
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