In May 2023, meanwhile, publicly and on behalf of a group of victims’ groups, he launched a call to nine organized crime cartels for “a peace agreement to end armed conflicts and eradicate the forced disappearance of people,” with the offer that, if they helped bring peace to the country, he would propose them for a prize.
His message on social media was to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Gulf Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, the old school Zetas Cartel, the Salazar Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, the Ciudad Juarez Cartel, the Beltran Leyva Cartel, the Michoacana Family and the Knights Templar.
MESSAGE TO THE LEADERS OF THE MEXICAN CARTELS
“If you help us pacify the country, prevent and stop disappearances and forced disappearances in Mexico, I and law professors who collaborate with me will propose you as candidates to win the election. @NobelPrize 2024. pic.twitter.com/Z0d3KH4300— Delia Quiroa (@DeliaQuiroa)
September 1, 2023
In interviews, the activist has acknowledged that in the Collective she heads there are also relatives of hawks and people who were part of criminal groups – but are also missing or murdered – because they are also victims.
Now he is back in the national news by placing himself on the same page and not only by “respectfully” requesting from the Gulf Cartel the appearance alive of Professor Juan Manuel López, kidnapped for 36 hours and successfully released on July 25, but also by turning to the same criminal group last Thursday, August 1, and asking for help.
This is the second time that 78-year-old Tamaulipas businessman José Ventura Castillo has returned home. He was deprived of his freedom on July 31 and according to local reports, he has already returned home safely. The businessman is the father of the newly elected alternate senator Verónica Castillo, who ran on a ticket with the elected legislator Olga Sosa, former federal deputy for the Partido Encuentro Social (PES).
Among other tasks, Quiroa headed collective legal actions late last year to prevent missing persons from being removed from the National Registry of Missing Persons.
This follows revelations by Karla Quintana, former National Search Commissioner, of an alleged government strategy to reduce the number of missing persons with alleged findings of people on that list, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed but said that people listed in the Registry were found in their homes, in beneficiary lists or in other states, which is why it was purged.
