Jared Laureles and Jessica Xantomila
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 10, 2024, p. 4
The list with 183 names of people who would have been thrown into the sea in the so-called death flights during the dirty war, that an alleged former military officer sent in 2004 to Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, founder of the Eureka! Committee, must be subject to an investigation well done and scientific
given its impact and that families We cannot accept that they tell us that they are dead without proving it.
the State, urged members of the aforementioned group.
Last Thursday, a group of investigators from the Historical Clarification Mechanism of the Truth Commission, headed by Eugenia Allier, reported that in March they located the list of said flights that took off from the Pie de la Cuesta military base in Guerrero, at the Academic Center for the Memory of Our America of the Autonomous University of Mexico City.
Claudia Piedra Ibarra, the youngest daughter of the former social activist, said in an interview that the document that came to light these days is indeed part of her mother’s archives, but must be contextualized, since it is dated May 2004, the time when the trial was held against Miguel Nazar Haro, former head of the now defunct Federal Security Directorate, for forced disappearance, including that of his son, Jesús Piedra Ibarra, in 1975.
If at some point you received that letter and you did not present it like that, it was because it would have been very irresponsible to send it out that way.
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He also reflected: How are you going to let the government know that (at that time) you are exonerating Nazar Haro, that you are covering up those responsible, accused of torture, murder and all this disappearance? And how are you going to give them anything when we always look for the missing with the presumption of life?
He also explained that the historical archive of the Eureka Committee, the first group of families of missing persons, was gradually compiled by his mother with what she was collecting from the investigation to locate her son and other missing persons. He stressed that in the crimes that were committed during the period of the dirty war (1965 to 1990), the death flights that took off from the Pie de la Cuesta military base are only part of all the research that needs to be done on the disappearances committed at that stage in history.
Jorge Gálvez Girón, also a member of ¡Eureka!, highlighted that the complete archive of the collective is in the Museum House of Indomitable Memory –of which he is responsible–, where there are countless documents
that require investigation, but We are not going to divulge it out of respect for the families of the missing.
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He recalled that even the collection He was persecuted, he had to go into hiding twice, and every time he went into hiding, that file had to be reorganized again.
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In a conversation with this newspaper, Laura Gaytán, a survivor of forced disappearance in the 1970s, who has been searching for her brother Javier Gaytán Zaldívar since 1974, asked that emphasis be placed on the families of the people who appear on the list of those who were allegedly thrown into the sea.
For this reason, he called on the Mexican State to conduct an exhaustive investigation in order to determine “what their fate was, where they are and who are –in order of command– those responsible for these very serious crimes against humanity.” The families, he emphasized, We cannot accept the idea that they are dead until they prove it to us.
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He also asked that the State take charge. of the emotional, psychological and physical effects of urgent nature on families who are experiencing this terribly painful situation.
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The members of the group also complained that a few days before the Historical Clarification Mechanism presents its report, do not comply with the decree and make the progress known to family members and groups
They also asked that the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, receive them in order to continue the investigations.
