Relatives closure the Senate by said against UN Committee

Jessica Xantomila and Jared Laureles

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, April 11, 2025, p. 7

Relatives of missing persons from Mexico City, Coahuila, Guerrero, Guanajuato and Michoacán, among other entities, yesterday made a symbolic closure of the Senate by the statement that issued against the president of the UN Committee against the forced disappearance, Olivier de Fouville, who announced that this organ will begin a process to know if in Mexico this practice is generalized or systematic.

They demanded a public apology from Gerardo Fernández Noroña (Morena), president of the Senate, after emphasizing that the position of the legislators, who indicated that what was declared by De Frouville has no support, Revictimizes To families. This protest, they highlighted, is To raise the voice because there is a disappeared crisis that the State has not wanted to face.

Although the Security Personnel of the enclosure surrounded the Madrid Street, corner with Insurgentes and Paris Avenue, the protesters advanced to doors 2 and 3 – some after jumping the metal fences – and placed banners with the message with the message Closed for its lack of commitment and We are missing +127 thousand.

They also put blankets with the photographs of their disappeared loved ones and on the sidewalk they hit search sheets, while in the pavement they painted the message: Denying and hiding is disappearing.

Jorge Verástegui, who is looking for his brother Antonio and his nephew Antonio de Jesús, disappeared in 2009 in Coahuila, reproached that the Senate It is not giving the results that victims and families need.

Jaqueline Palmeros, who for four and a half years looked for her daughter Monserrat, found lifeless, said: We are not angry, we are pissed off and what follows it, because this man (Fernández Noroña) has to go out to give a public apology.

In turn, Yoltzin Martínez, Yatzil’s sister – disappeared in 2010 in Guerrero – said that The lack of commitment and ethics that institutions that work for victims are evidentsuch as the National Search Commission. Meanwhile, Javier Barajas, from angels on foot for you, told the legislators: If they are not going to support, to be done aside.

During the development of the protest, the security personnel took part in the fence of Madrid Street, but hindered for a few minutes that Yoltzin Martínez came out in Paris. Later, the relatives of the disappeared withdrew, after which, with water, brooms and soap, the Senate cleaning workers removed the tens of search files attached to the sidewalk.

On the other hand, Amnesty International Mexico ruled on the position of the National Human Rights Commission against United Nations actions to make visible The crisis of disappearances In the country. By calling an impartiality no longer closing the dialogue, the organization spread a video on social networks by Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, founder of the Committee ¡Eureka!, In which you ask young people to fight so that what happened in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and Guatemala: Guatemala: Thousands of prisoners and missing.