El femicidio en el Ecuador: Caso Belén Bernal

Abstract

The main objective of this investigation focused on analyzing the femicide case of María Belén Bernal, a fact that drew attentio since it was committed inside the Police Training School “Gral Alberto Enríquez Gallo”, the protagonist of this crime, Germán Cáceres, a police lieutenant, the same one who at that time served as a trainer for other police officers, to determine the mechanisms used for the commission, concealment, and subsequent abandonment of the body in a place far from where events occurred, power relations and gender violence of this criminal type, is explained and conceptualized in themes and sub- themes related to this case. The methodology used has a qualitative approach that was used for the study of one or serveral cases, the level or descriptive – exploratory study that allowed us to relate to the phenomenon, the research modality was documentary and field that served as support in the theoretical framework, the inductive - deductive method that allowed an análisis fromthe general to the particular, and historical – logical because we are base don the present and pasto f the facts, the interview guide is also detailed as one of the instruments used in the present Project. And finally, the conclusions and recommendations were established. And as a conclusion of the present work, the informative triptych called “for those who can no longer defend themselves “was presented, the same one that was directed to the women of the Ambato Canton, so that they are trained and know how to act in case of suffering some type of violence. In their environment, and to the general public so that they attend to this problem that is of interest to an entire community