Listin Diario newspaper leads with the story, also carried in some of the other papers, of the grisly murder of San Cristobal businessman Jose Castro. It appears that the 48 year old father of five was killed by his wife, his two teenage children and a domestic employee, who planned the killing together in response to a long history of physical abuse at his hands. This event took place during a week when the nation has been focusing its attention on the problem of domestic violence, with the commemoration on 25 November of the International Day against Violence against Women. The paper also reports the sadly all-too-common occurrence of a La Vega man who shot his wife dead, and then committed suicide, because she had asked for a separation.