Jessica Xanthomilla
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 25, 2022, p. 9
Twelve years after the massacre in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, where 72 migrants were murdered, there are still nine unidentified victims and seven families are still waiting for authorization to review the bodies that were handed over to them. fast-track Between 2010 and 2011, to be certain that they are those of their loved ones, they denounced the Foundation for Justice, the committees of relatives of disappeared undocumented persons from Guatemala and Honduras, and the Casa del Migrante de Saltillo, among other organizations.
Yesterday, some organizations gathered at the anti-monument +72, located on Paseo de la Reforma, in front of the United States embassy, to honor the lives of all the victims of the massacre and the people who are still looking for them. There they placed photographs of some of the murdered, flowers and messages that read justice +72 migrants
Y #it’s time
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In a joint message, they stated that this crime is emblematic of the serious situation of violence against undocumented people that does not stop in our country and of the tragedies to which said population is subjected
.
They detailed that six families from Guatemala and one from Brazil have been waiting for nearly 10 years for the identification review of the bodies that were delivered to them. fasttrack, without explanation, without documentation, without even being able to see them
. One of them is that of Ángela Pineda Morales, who died last year without knowing if the remains she received are really from her daughter Mayra Izabel.
In the anti-monument they also publicized the case of Mrs. Vilma, who in a video recorded from Guatemala questioned how it is that through a photograph the authorities were going to be sure that the bodies they were given, including her husband’s, were The right ones. She asked for help to investigate and justice be done
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The organizations argued that it has not been counted with the high-level willingness of the Mexican government to reach an agreement with its Guatemalan counterpart for the exhumation and review of the bodies in the Central American nation by the Forensic Commission, made up of experts from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
.
They stated that since the massacre of the 72 migrants in San Fernando, that remains unpunished
, others have been committed, such as Cadereyta, Nuevo León (2012), and Güémez (2014) and Camargo (2021), in Tamaulipas. Although for the investigation of the cases, the FGR accepted the technical support of the United Nations Organization (UN), it has not materialized
. They urged the integration of the special commission for the investigation of massacres and disappearances of migrants, recommended by the UN.
