▲ Fundem members protested yesterday in front of the FGR headquarters, at the Insurgentes intersection, where they posted images with the faces of their loved ones.Photo Cristina Rodriguez
Arthur Cano
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, May 10, 2022, p. 5
One wall of the Insurgentes roundabout has been filled with very peculiar mosaics: the faces of disappeared persons, We put mine on January 25 last
said Guadalupe Martínez, referring to the mosaic with the image of her son, José Antonio Robledo, disappeared 13 years and three months ago
in Monclova, Coahuila.
Mrs. Guadalupe keeps the exact accounts: of the days without her son, of those prosecuted for her case and the time they have been in prison, of the offenses of the authority. On the eve of Mother’s Day, for example, she reproaches that the capital’s government authorities have removed the photos and posters that various groups put up just on Sunday in what was the roundabout of the palm
on Paseo de la Reforma (soon the roundabout of Ahuehuete).
Because right now? Why are we going to reach the figure of 100,000 disappeared, without counting the black figure?
asked Mrs. Martínez into the microphone, adding that they will not give up their efforts to have this crossing named the roundabout of the disappeared
. we will never get tired
.
The protest was called by the United Forces for Our Disappeared, which brings together several groups of relatives. The participants displayed posters, shouted slogans and placed new tiles with the faces of their disappeared. The pieces were added to those that since last year testify to the bustle of the entrance to the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office (credential in hand!
orders a security element while the mothers and sisters continue with their protest).
Life in this walk is hard. That’s why we ask you not to leave us alone tomorrow
Martínez continued, calling for the march with which they commemorate, in protest, Mother’s Day.
At his side, Juana Solís carries a huge medallion with the photo of her daughter, Brenda Damaris, who disappeared in July 2011, in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León. Six months later her remains were found, but her mother was not notified until a year later, in November 2012 (they gave me some remains
). Since then she has continued to fight for justice.
The case of José Antonio Robledo is peculiar, because there are already three sentenced and other people in process, although the parents continue with the uncertainty of not knowing where my son is
.
Do you know why your son disappeared?
–He worked on the ICA El Fénix project. There he combined everything, the collusion of the authorities, the criminal group that he dominated…
