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Profile. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, the first woman to contend for the Presidency Born in Saltillo, Coahuila on February 24, 1927, Rosary Ibarra of Stone is considered one of the first pioneers in the defense of human rightspeace and democracy in Mexico, following his 19-year-old son, Jesús, was disappeared in 1974, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León.
With the demand to demand the presentation of his son and dozens of other young people, accompanied by “las doñas” (mothers of children of disappeared) and under the banner of “Alive they took them away, alive we want them!” In 1977 he founded the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners, Persecuted, Disappeared and Political Exiles, known as the ¡Eureka! Committee.
A year later, due to pressure from the organization and others, then President José López Portillo decided to enact the Amnesty Law, which was approved in Congress.
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Due to this law, 1,500 political prisoners were released, 57 exiles were allowed to return to the country, and more than 2,000 arrest warrants were withdrawn.
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was a deputy, senator and political adviser.
In 1982 it was the first woman candidate for the Presidency of the Republic for the then Workers’ Revolutionary Party (PRT) and six years later, in the 1988 elections, he once more competed for the Presidency for the same party.
Ms. Rosario Ibarra was a columnist for THE UNIVERSAL in the years when the opposition had few or no spaces.
For his fight, he was Nobel Peace Prize candidate in the years 1986, 1987, 1989 and 2006.
On October 23, 2019, at the age of 92, the Senate of the Republic awarded her the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor “in recognition of her hard work as an activist and defender of human rights for more than four decades in favor of political prisoners, disappeared and exiled”.
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