The murder of Brenda del Castillo (20), Morena Verri (20) y Lara Morena Gutiérrez (15) in Florencio Varelawhose bodies were found lifeless after days of intense search, shock the country and reopen the debate on media treatment in the face of gender violence. Although the main hypothesis of the investigation points to an alleged “narco revenge” linked to organized crime. The case is, above all, A triple feminiciderooted in the vulnerability to which this system exposes women.
Risk is not the victim, but the context of inequality
“Let the mother go”, “15 years and it was already a prostitute, I was going to end badly,” “they were black widows and got into a Peruvian narco, they looked for them.” “They lived in La Matanza and had iPhone,” and many other misogynist comments, and patriarchals that social networks abound
The brutal exposure of the intimacy of pibas in media showcases hides a double purpose. It is no longer just the dehumanizing market strategy, designed to generate the yellowish note and the scoop sold “as hot bread”.
This practice actually operates as a fulminating weapon of disciplinary stigmatization, which reinforces the notion of “She looked for her”. When doing this, journalism not only revictimizes, but diverts the attention of feminicide and subtly guilt to women for their own murder.
The “Guide for media treatment responsible for cases of violence against women” From the public defender recommends avoiding exposing the intimacy of the victim, “example by disseminating rugged data or the presentation of detailed descriptions of truculent and/or morbid aspects” that only contribute to the frequent violation and media revictimization. “The marked tendency to extract and underline morbidity in cases of violence against women and their insistent -many times as Loop -, of illustrative images, seem to lead to spectacular, generally invasive chronicles, before the provision of socially relevant information,” says the guide.
The brutality with which the intimacy of their lives is exhibited as a disciplinary reminder for the rest of society: “If you leave the mold, if you are poor, if you frequent marginality, your life is not only worth less, but your murder will be justified.”
There are no “good” or “bad” victims: public indignation has focused on the persistent attempt of some media and social sectors for investigating the private life, the age or work of young women. This practice of revictimization deviates the focus of the true cause: the macho violence that reifies the bodies of women and allows them to be used as objects of punishment or adjustment of accounts. No activity or social status justifies a murder.
The young women who “leave the mold” or who face situations of violence (including those related to drug trafficking networks), are doubly punished. When the tragedy touches its door, as in cases of femicide, a part of the social and media discourse examines them under the magnifying glass of prejudice.
Their decisions, their friends or their schedules are questioned, installing the idea of “They looked for it”. This mechanism is highly dangerous, because it makes the victim guilty of their own vulnerability, diverting the focus of the real problem: The lack of opportunities y guarantee your structural life something that should guarantee The State And how we see under no government the capitalist system can guarantee.
Because while the gender gaps in income are deepened, the overrepresentation of women in poverty and the vast majority, especially the precarious, sees decrease its purchasing power of essential foods.
If Milei came to this, it is because with a speech that sought to hide inequalities during Peronism, he persisted and deepened: not only the lack of public policies to address the emergence of violence against women, but also the budget cut for the existing, so shelters in the different municipalities are almost non -existent or depend on NGOs or institutions in order to the Church.
Let’s think that the last report of the Department of Social Statistics Analysis of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Economypublished in July of this year, the unemployment in the PBA 9.3% reached the first quarter of 2025, the highest index in the country. The most affected agglomerates were GBA matcheswith 613,000 unoccupied people.
Almost half of the workers are in informality, and the multi -employment reached 9.7% in the fourth quarter of 2024. Among young people under 26, more than 56% work in precarious conditions. 42.1% of the inhabitants are poor and 10.1 indigent.
In 2024, according to the National Registry of Femicides of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, there was 1 femicide every 39 hours in Argentina. Meanwhile, the NGO “The House of the Meeting” accounted for 164 victims in the first 8 months of 2025.
By Lara, Brenda and Morena we return to the streets this Saturday, September 27 and for all those that are missing. The State is responsible!
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
