Astrid La Fontaine
20 May 2000
Ciudad de Guatemala (Guatemala)
Shot
TDoR list ref: tdor.info/20 May 2000/Astrid La Fontaine
Astrid was shot to death in front of witnesses.
The Guatemalan police was not interested in investigating her murder.
On May 20, 2000, a man emerged from a car and shot to death Roberto Martínez Castillo (aka Astrid LaFontaine), a transvestite sex worker, while Castillo was standing on a corner in Zone 1 of Guatemala City
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. “Transvestites Murdered While the State Stands By,” Action Alert, September 2000. URL /Amnesty International. Guatemala’s Lethal Legacy: Past Impunity and Renewed Human Rights Violations (London: AI Index: AMR 34/001/2002, 28 February 2002), 61.
http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/001023oasis.html
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/112000/amr340012002en.pdf
