The renowned Mexican human rights activist Rosario Ibarra He died this Saturday at the age of 95 in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, reported the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
“Bad news: Rosario Ibarra de Piedra died, who will always remind us of the deepest love for children and solidarity and solidarity with those who suffer from the disappearance of their loved ones,” López Obrador wrote on his Twitter account. .
Bad news: Rosario Ibarra de Piedra died, who will always remind us of the deepest love for children and solidarity with those who suffer from the disappearance of their loved ones. That was her true match for her even though she admired Giordano Bruno. pic.twitter.com/30mNALazlN
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_)
April 16, 2022
After the disappearance of his son Jesús Piedra, in 1975 after being accused of belonging to the Communist League September 23, he founded the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners, Persecuted, Disappeared and Political Exiles, better known as the ¡Eureka! Committee.
the state National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) also lamented the death of Ibarra, whom he considered a “pioneer in the defense of human rights, peace and democracy in Mexico.”
The disappearances that, according to official data, number more than 90,000 began in Mexico with the so-called “dirty war” of the authorities against the revolutionary movements of the left from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Their number skyrocketed from the 2000s, with the increase in the activity of drug traffickers in Mexico and the war that former President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) declared on the cartels at the beginning of his government, launching an anti-drug strategy with participation of military forces.