Relatives, friends and activists who accompanied their fight for the disappeared in Mexico fired this Sunday Rosary Ibarra of Stonetireless social fighter who died in Monterey, Nuevo Leon, at the age of 95 years.
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Her daughters, Claudia and Rosario Piedra Ibarra, the latter, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), addressed a message in memory of her mother.
Rosario highlighted the work carried out by her mother for 40 years for the disappeared in Mexico, a fight she has championed since her son Jesús Piedra Ibarra disappeared following being accused of belonging to the Communist League on September 23, during Luis Echeverría’s six-year term. .
The young man was arrested in Monterrey and handed over to the military because the group was accused of the crime of Don Eugenio Garza Sada.
On her pilgrimage to find out the whereregardings of her offspring, Ibarra de Piedra founded the ¡Eureka! Committee, which became the first group of mothers of the disappeared.
We have to continue sowing those seeds, let them continue to flourish and then yes, we are going to have, in this Mexico, in this homeland, a place where we can say: we live in peace”, highlighted the head of the CNDH of the work carried out by her mother .
The funeral chapel where the mortal remains of Ibarra de Piedra were laid vigil was Hernández’s funeral, where the former governor of Nuevo León, Sócrates Rizzo García, who highlighted his admiration for Doña Rosario, arrived.
Doña Rosario is in history and will continue to be an example,” he said.
He pointed out that he met her very young as a family and then took it upon himself to follow her fight.
The figure of Doña Rosario takes on great importance now in these times when the rates of missing women and girls have increased,” she commented.
The former president of New Leon arrived accompanied by his wife Alma Elisa Reyes de Rizzo.
He also addressed a message in honor of the activist, Laura Elena Gaytán, political prisoner and survivor of that situation.
He stressed that thanks to Ibarra de Piedra hundreds of political prisoners achieved their freedom.
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