Rosario Piedra Ibarra, president of the CNDH (National Human Rights Commission), said in Acapulco, Guerrero, that international organizations never spoke out in favor of the mothers and relatives of those who disappeared during the Dirty War in Mexico.
Photo by Héctor Briseño
Acapulco, Mexico. Rosario Piedra Ibarra, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), emphasized in the port that she will not allow international organizations to intervene in Mexico on the issue of missing persons, as they never spoke out in support of the mothers and relatives of those who disappeared during the country’s dirty war.
During the memorial ceremony 46 years after the deaths of teachers José Luis Martínez Pérez and Elín Santiago Muñoz, members of the Revolutionary Action Movement, at the Las Cruces cemetery, Piedra Ibarra stated that “the UN will do nothing here! We will not allow those who call themselves defenders of global democracy to come and trample on the democracy that is in its infancy in this country.”
Speaking before social leaders, academics, and relatives of former combatants, Piedra Ibarra emphasized that “we must fight the battle, consolidate democratic governments; not join those who never defended us.”
She recalled that “the mothers, all the ladies, grew tired of knocking on the doors of the United Nations, Amnesty International, and all those international organizations. They published their bulletins, but they never attacked the government as they are doing now.”
The president of the CNDH expressed that this tribute to Martínez Pérez and Santiago Muñoz, killed in an ambush on April 9th, 1979, in Torreón, Coahuila, by agents of the Brigada Blanca, represents an act of commemoration for all those who fell during the period known as the Dirty War.
She stated that “it is something the people of Mexico must not forget. We must guarantee that these bloody persecutions, torture, extrajudicial executions, and abuses committed by the Mexican State never happen again.”
Original article by Héctor Briseño, La Jornada, April 9th, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.