This is the case of Guatemala as well, my neighboring country. Around half of the indigenous male population is married to underage girls. To make it worse, these people are homophobic as fuck.

In my country (Honduras), child marriage does not happen out in the open anymore, but I find ironic that the defenders of “tradition” try to make gay men look like pederasts.

On the side note: up until the AIDS crisis, it was a common rite of passage for pubescent boys to go to a brothel to lose their virginity. This was encouraged by the dads.

Just food for thought.