Dozens of relatives and friends of women victims of the violence They traveled 94 kilometers starting from the Mexican Ciudad Juárez, towards the adjoining municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero where they inaugurated a memorial in honor of those murdered in Chihuahua.
“The purpose is to publicize this memorial and honor the victims of femicide. From January to July of this year, 84 of these cases were registered,” said Yadira Cortés, coordinator of psycho-emotional accompaniment of the Red Mesa de Mujeres collective in Ciudad Juárez.
The memorial called ‘Beats of a resilient heart’ was installed in the well-known Navajo stream, where the bodies of 25 young people were found in 2013 and 2014.
The protesters wore pink, black and white garments as a symbol of union Well, they defend the cause of having a decent place to visit their daughters.
Cortés He explained that it is important that the processes are fast and expeditious and that there is no impunity.
“They tell us that there are no people in the rooms, there are no public ministries, you have to put more budget into it, if it has not served in 20 years, a change in prevention and investment must be generated. It is important that the authorities stop saying and start doing, and see results with the actions”, he added.
One of the mothers who attended, and who was one of the main impellers of this memorial, was Susana Montes Rodríguez, mother of the young María Guadalupe Pérez Montes, who disappeared when she was 17 years old, in January 2009.
“They only gave me the skull of my daughter. Since she is not with us she has been a suffering Huge, it’s a pain not to have it. God has given me strength. Getting here is painful,” she said in a broken voice.
He added that this situation of violence has not finished, despite the fact that the three levels of government in the city are watching. “We want justice for our daughters,” she concluded.
Norma Laguna, mother of Idaly Juache, whose remains were located in April 2012, was another of the protesters who pointed out that the same situation of violence continues to be experienced as several years ago.
“In the case of my is they have not resolved it and here we are only looking for a decent place to mourn him. Since a child is missing it is not the same, they need tablets to sleep, to be calm and we hope that the authorities resolve this situation,” he said.
In the place of the memorial were the cruces wooden painted pink, wrapped in purple fabric.
In this scene of violence, the governor of ChihuahuaMaría Eugenia Campos, placed the first stone of the “Sentinel Tower” a few days ago to improve response capacity and reduce crime rates with an investment of 4 billion pesos.
Another action to prevent these events occurred at the end of 2021, when the governor and the ambassador of the United States in Mexico, Ken Salazarsigned a letter of intent on violence prevention, which included the strengthening of the municipal police and their unification with the state police.
With information from EFE