Mario Escobar Salazar, the father of the young Mexican Debanhi Escobar, whose disappearance and alleged feminicide remains unsolved, This Wednesday, March 6, he began his campaign to seek to be a federal deputy for the opposition Citizen Movement (MC).
The man entered politics following the national outrage sparked by the case of his 18-year-old daughterwho disappeared on April 9, 2022 following attending a party in the municipality of Escobedo, in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, where his body appeared on the 21st of that same month in a cistern at the Motel Nueva Castilla.
Escobar Salazar presented to the citizens some of his proposals, focused onprotection of women and the fight once morest impunity for gender violence.
“We are going once morest impunity and for total support for women. We are going to show that in some way we want to continue working so that there are no femicides, so that there is no more Debanhi,” he said.
Furthermore, the father of the young woman murdered in Mexico mentioned that seeks to raise our voices for all the families of the victims of forced disappearance and feminicide.
“We have to tell the authorities what we have to tell them, without being afraid of anything. We have nothing to lose. “I, Mario Escobar Salazar, have nothing to lose on this path because what I loved most I have already lost,” he said.
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Escobar Salazar also shared that he is not an MC militant, but He approached the party because it was the one who listened to his proposal.
“Citizen Movement believed in us and believed in that project. We go and go out to the houses and fortunately people are understanding us, they are supporting us,” he revealed.
Likewise, he maintained that will promote laws for the protection of women and the immediate search in cases of disappearance because the legislation now requires waiting 72 hours.
“It has to be an immediate search when people do not have news of their relatives. “We live it firsthand”he stated.
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Finally, Debanhi’s father shared that will seek to promote a DNA bank for the identification of missing persons.
The case of Debanhi Escobar reflects two crises in Mexico, that of sexist violence, with nearly 10 women murdered a day, and that of disappearances, with more than 110 thousand people not located since there was registration.
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