Mexico: An activist who had been searching for her missing son since 2019 was murdered

The “human tragedy” of 100,000+ missing people upset once more the Mexico yesterday Wednesday, as the authorities announced the murder of an activist, a 44-year-old mother who was searching for her son, missing since 2019.

Member of a collective of women who are looking for their missing children, h Rosario Rodriguez was abducted by gunmen after attending a prayer service for her child on Tuesday night in Sinaloa state (west), according to the NGO Adónde van los Desaparecidos (“Where do the disappeared go?”).

The body of the 44-year-old woman was found a few hours later near a bridge in the community of La Cruz de Elota, according to the same source.

“I am deeply saddened by the killing of Rosario Rodríguez Barraza, a tireless fighter like so many other Sinaloan women searching for their loved ones“, was the reaction of the governor of the state, Reuven Rocha, via Twitter.

News of the mother’s murder made headlines in Mexican media the day after the international day for victims of enforced disappearances by state officials.

Her son, O Fernando Ramirezdisappeared in October 2019. It is not known if he was kidnapped by government officials or by organized crime.

“It is a priority to solve her murder“, as it was about “woman and member of an extremely vulnerable group such as those searching for missing persons“, emphasized the local prosecutor’s office.

Many crimes (femicides, kidnappings, murders of journalists…) go unpunished in Mexico.

The day before yesterday, relatives of the disappeared marched in various cities to denounce the inefficiency of the authorities in the search for the missing.

More than 100,000 disappeared are counted in Mexico, “human tragedy of enormous proportions“, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights declared in May.

This phenomenon in Mexico dates back to 1964, when the state’s “dirty war” began against various guerrilla organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. But it swelled dramatically in the 2000s, when the violence of drug-trafficking gangs escalated.

Collectives estimate that the number of missing persons is even higher, as many families do not report disappearances to prosecutors due to fear or a lack of trust in the authorities.

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