Mexico – AFP
The Mexican authorities announced that an activist in a movement searching for the missing in the country, and the mother of a young man who disappeared since 2019, was assassinated in a new tragedy for this movement that seeks to know the fate of more than one hundred thousand people in this country.
“Where do the missing go?” said the NGO. (Adonde van los Desaparecidos) Rosario Rodriguez, a member of the Association of Research Mothers, was kidnapped by gunmen following she attended a mass for her son on Tuesday evening in the western state of Sinaloa.
Her body was found hours later near a bridge in the town of Ilota, according to the same source.
“I am sorry for the assassination of Rosario Rodriguez Barraza, a tireless fighter like so many other women in Sinaloa who are looking for their loved ones,” state Governor Robin Rocha said on Twitter.
The news of her assassination occupied the headlines of the Mexican newspapers the day following the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances by State Agents.
Her son, Fernando Ramirez, went missing in October 2019, but it was not known if he had been kidnapped by state agents or members of organized crime.
The local prosecutor stressed that “uncovering the circumstances of Rosario’s murder is a priority” because “a woman and also because she is a member of a vulnerable group in a very fragile situation, as they are the researchers for missing persons.”
Many perpetrators of murders of women and journalists and kidnappings remain unpunished in Mexico.
