In Canary Islands There are those who do understand little or poorly about respect for the rights of others, and especially the rights of women, offering the worst face of some Islands where they are cared for. two calls for sexist violence every hour and six complaints are filed daily for sexual crimes.
On January 10, in addition, a man stabbed his ex-partner to death in front of his children in Armenime (Tenerife)one of the boys being injured while trying to defend his mother.
Romina’s family, woman murdered and dismembered by her partner in Lanzaroteis distraught to learn that the criminal, accused of burning her to pieces, is free.
Also in January, the Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves, accused of a alleged rape, hired the Gran Canaria lawyer Cristóbal Martel to defend him.
In March, a woman was drugged and raped by three people in a hotel in the port of The Gran Canarian palmswhile on April 16 a German tourist beat his wife to death in Fuerteventura and later committed suicide with a plastic bag.
In Tenerife, a 92-year-old man was arrested on August 9 for killing his 91-year-old wife.
Four homegrown players from real Madrid were investigated in September for a sex tape and, also that month, They arrest a man for beating his mother-in-law to death in Saint Matthew.
Health integrates the 7,000 health workers it hired for the pandemic just a few months before the mandatory use of masks in pharmacies, health centers and hospitals is withdrawn
On September 25, it was known that there were 481 cases of gender violence against women with disabilities, while in November a young man reported sexual assault against Miguel Cabrera Pérez Camacho, lawyer, university professor and president of the Tenerife Casino. The suspension this month of the head of the Tenerife National Police for alleged mistreatment brings to a Dantesque close the news of gender violence, abuses and murders.
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On January 16, hospitals relocate elderly people without means to release them 400 beds occupied for cured patients who had nowhere and no one to go to.
In February we said goodbye to masks in public transport; In June we saw their mandatory nature disappear in pharmacies and health centers and also in June, they were finally stopped being used in hospitals throughout Spain.
In February, the Negrín neurosurgeons reported workplace harassment against their boss, former Health Minister Jesús Morera in the same hospital center where the first lung transplant in the Canary Islands was performed on September 25.
In the Islands, almost 35,000 patients continue waiting for an operation despite the fact that in May Health integrates 7,000 health workers that he hired for the pandemic.
This last month, the flu and covid saturate the emergencies in the Canary Islands and the Archipelago becomes the community with the highest incidence of respiratory viruses. Furthermore, 31% of patients admitted to island hospitals suffer from malnutrition.
A news item from January 31 about the expenditure of 105,000 euros from Social Rights for a feminist twerking festival generates criticism in the Islands.
On the contrary, the news of the launching, in October, 028, the telephone against LGTBIphobia.
Also in the field of telephony, it is published that seven out of every ten children under 15 years of age have a mobile phone in the Archipelago.go canary.
In terms of family relationships, the Canary Islands is, for the fourth consecutive year, the community in the country that registers the highest divorce rate.
Historical Memory was also in the news spotlight in 2023. On January 17, the suspension of the demolition of the monument to Franco in Santa Cruz de Tenerife was announced and, only four months later, it was known that the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands It annulled the island’s catalog of Francoist vestiges.