Mexico: a mother of disappeared murdered in the state of Sinaloa

Mexico: in Mexico City, the families and loved ones of the disappeared demonstrate on August 30, 2022 for the International Day of Enforced Disappearances.

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The body of a missing mother, Rosario Rodriguez, was found a few hours after her abduction by armed men.

She had just attended a mass in homage to her son in the state of Sinaloa (west), according to the NGO “

” (Where do the disappeared go).

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Rosario Rodriguez was a member of a collective of mothers of the disappeared,

.

Fernando Abixahy Ramírez, his son, disappeared in October 2019, without it being known whether he was kidnapped by state agents or organized crime.

Aged 44, Rosario Rodriguez had denounced the inaction of the public authorities two weeks ago in a video message.

She was abducted from her home while she was with another of her children, a minor.

His body was found a few hours later, on the edge of a railway line in the municipality of La Cruz de Elota.

The announcement of his death has once again aroused many reactions.

"I deeply regret the assassination of Rosario Rodriguez Barraza, a tireless fighter like so many other women in Sinaloa who are looking for a loved one," Sinaloa state governor Rubén Rocha responded on Twitter. the assassination of Rosario Rodriguez Barraza made headlines in the Mexican media, reports Agence France presse, the day after the International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearances by State Agents. of Mrs. Rosario because she is a woman and moreover a member of an extremely vulnerable group such as the searchers for missing persons", indicated the local prosecutor's office.

Lamento profundamente el asesinato de Rosario Rodríguez Barraza, luchadora incansable como muchas otras mujeres sinaloenses que buscan a sus seres queridos.

— Ruben Rocha Moya (@rochamoya_) August 31, 2022

According to groups of families of the disappeared, Rosario Rodriguez Ibarra had been the subject of numerous threats and pressure. 

On Tuesday, relatives of the disappeared

denouncing the inefficiency of the authorities in the search for missing persons.

Mexico has more than 100,000 missing people, "a human tragedy of enormous proportions", denounced in May the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The accounting started from 1964, with the “dirty war” of the state against various guerrillas in the 1960s-70s.

The phenomenon has grown with the violence linked to drug trafficking from the 2000s.

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Groups believe that the number of missing is even higher, because families do not file a complaint with the prosecutor's office out of fear or lack of confidence.

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