translated from Spanish: Violence against women has not increased, there is family fraternity: AMLO

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that gender-based violence has not increased during COVID-19 quarantine.
“In the case of violence in general and violence against women, we have not noticed an increase, of course the way we measure it is the allegations that are presented, there may be a black figure, but in the complaints there has not been an increase,” he said.
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He noted that the increase in violence was based on the assumption that if more time was spent in the houses there could be more family violence, “this is not necessarily happening because it cannot be measured with the same parameters to everyone,” the president said.
In Mexico we have a culture of a lot of fraternity, the representative said.
But also sexist, commented the reporter who asked him about the subject.
“Yes, there is machismo, but also a lot of family fraternity. The family in Mexico is exceptional, it is the most fraternal human nucleus, this is not given elsewhere, I say it with all due respect. So if we want to measure family violence in Mexico with the pampering of other parts of the world it doesn’t quite apply.”
“It’s something like what we talked about the elders, we for being heirs to great civilizations, of cultures that come from afar, we’ve always cared for and respected our elders, Mexico’s elders are cared for by the family (…) love is not replaced with anything, that is the greatness of Mexico, its traditions, its habits,” he said.
“We have another custom, we don’t want older adults to go to the asylums as we don’t want the children of the house to leave, elsewhere the children are reaching adolescence and they already want them to leave, that’s a custom, here’s not.”
During her morning conference she said she will report on violence against women at the time.
The Mexico City Women’s Line received an unusual number of calls for gender-based violence last March: four times more than the monthly average in recent years.
In total there were 812 calls listed as “gender-based violence”. It is twice the 409 received in February, which already doubled 194 January.
During the biggest time of crisis in China over the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic in February, three times of domestic violence reported in Jingzhou city, 200 kilometres from Wuhan, the epicentre of the disease.
90%, an NGO fighting domestic violence said, at the Chinese portal Sixth Tone, were related to quarantine: fear, anxiety, economic tension and house confinement can be triggers.
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Original source in Spanish