ABSTRACT
Guatemala is the cradle of the Mayan empire, the first commercial and intellectual centre of the Spanish conquest, home of multiple languages, traditions and ethnic groups, but it is also the scene of one of the bloodiest civil wars in Central America, high rates of poverty and a strong presence of organized crime gangs. Guatemala confronts us with one of the most widespread conflict networks in the contemporary world: femicide. In the context of the new protests cycles of the last five years, a practice that has plagued Guatemalan society for some time now, such as the murder of women, is also visible in and through various collective actions. In order to show the energy of filial love, what happens in Guatemala has three very interesting characteristics: 1. there are no more or less permanent groups, 2. they are protests that use expressive resources such as the collective actions already mentioned over recent years, and 3. especially the “We are hurting 56” (#NosDuelen56) clearly shows that on many occasions filial love as a source of collective action is nurtured and crossed by other groups and energies.
