Approximately 51,100 women and girls were killed by their intimate partners or family members in 2023, which equates to an average of 140 femicides per day, according to the UN Women annual report on this phenomenon published on Monday.

The report indicates that women and girls who were victims of femicide—or gender-based murder—accounted for 60% of the 85,000 intentional killings globally in 2023.

The findings reveal that while femicide affects women and girls across all regions, Africa has the highest absolute number, with 21,700 killed in 2023, and also records the highest level of violence relative to its female population.

In relative terms, Africa suffers 2.9 femicides per 100,000 women, followed by the Americas (1.6), Oceania (1.5), Asia (0.8), and Europe (0.6).

On Sunday, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo de León extended his “best wishes” to Yamandú Orsi after he was elected as the new president of Uruguay for the next five years.

“President Orsi, I want to express my best wishes. May the success of your government translate into improvements in the material and spiritual conditions of the beloved Uruguayan people,” Arévalo de León stated through his social media.

The Guatemalan leader was born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and spent the first two years of his life in the South American country due to the exile of his father, former president Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (1944-1951).

“I hope that our nations continue to strengthen their friendship through our governments,” added Arévalo de León.

Orsi became Uruguay’s president-elect on Sunday, after defeating Álvaro Delgado by just over 90,000 votes, according to official data provided by the Electoral Court.

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With 98.65% of the votes counted, the opposition Frente Amplio coalition, formed by Orsi and Carolina Cosse, secured 1,179,454 votes, while the officialist Partido Nacional obtained 1,086,758 votes.

With a campaign focused on social justice, sustainable development, and national unity, Orsi won the overwhelming support of the citizens, surpassing the official candidate Álvaro Delgado.

On Sunday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro congratulated Yamandú Orsi on his victory in Uruguay’s presidential elections, while advocating for “the building of a respectful and positive relationship, based on cooperation and mutual support” between both countries.

“I congratulate the Uruguayan people for the electoral process held on November 24, where they elected Yamandú Orsi, to whom I wish the greatest success,” Maduro expressed via Telegram.

Orsi, a candidate from the Frente Amplio party, became the third left-wing president in Uruguay’s history, defeating Álvaro Delgado of the Partido Nacional by just over 90,000 votes, with 98% of the electoral circuits counted, according to data provided by the Electoral Court.

In September, Orsi stated that “the situation in Venezuela is indefensible” and described the country as having “a very authoritarian regime.”

“I believe there is a very authoritarian regime, and it fits into the categories we usually call dictatorship,” he said at the time.

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Luis Lacalle Pou, the current president of Uruguay, who maintains that Venezuela is under a “dictatorship,” was one of the first governments to reject the official result of Maduro’s re-election on July 28. He recognized Edmundo González Urrutia, the candidate from the largest opposition coalition, as the winner of the election.

Following this, the Venezuelan government expelled Uruguay’s diplomatic personnel over their “interfering actions and statements” regarding the elections, as well as that of six other countries that called for a vote verification process after the anti-Chavista coalition Platform Unitaria Democrática accused of “electoral fraud.”