Oct 28 Mexico Human Rights: Daughter of Nestora Salgado, Imprisoned Community Police Leader, Flees to U.S. Due to Death Threats, La Jornada: Enrique Mendez Saira Rodriguez Salgado, daughter of Nestora Salgado Garcia, a coordinator of the Community Police of the Regional Commuity Authorties (CRAC-PC) in Guerrero, announced that she is exiling herself in the United States, where she is also a citizen. MV Note: Nestora Salgado was arrested on August 21, 2013, in an operation involving 15 military vehicles. She was charged with 48 counts of kidnapping. As a community police officer of the CRAC, she had ordered the arrest of Olinala municipal councilman, Armando Patrón Jiménez on suspicion of committing two murders and participating in cattle raiding. Since then, she has been held in federal prison in Nayarit, far from Guerrero, and essentially in solitary confinement. From the neighboring country, she will demand the freedom of my mother. I am going into self-exile because they want to kill me, so Im not going to stay, she said in a press statement released from the Chamber of Deputies. She reported that, in recent months, she has received death threats from organized crime. Although the threats have been reported to the Public Prosecutor in Olinalá, Guerrero, they have not been addressed. She said the threatening calls come from a cell number in the Federal District [Mexico City], and the callers claimed they belong to the Warriors United cartel. For that reason, she has filed complaints with the Attorney General of the Federal District and become part of the Mechanism for Protection of Human Rights Defenders. At her express request, she is being guarded with the support of the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, under the direction of PRD legislator Roberto López Suárez. Saira Rodriguez urged the acting governor of Guerrero, Rogelio Ortega Martínez, to immediately release all political prisoners in the state. She asked that negotiations be established leading to the release of her mother and of all political prisoners from CRAC-PC and the punishment of those responsible for their incarceration. She reported that Nestora Salgado, who is being held in a maximum security prison in Nayarit, is sick because the prison authorities suspended her medications that allow her to stand without pain in the back [she was injured in an auto accident], plus they have changed the routines for visits and phone calls, making it impossible to have contact with her and get accurate health information. She said that when she reported the disappearance of 43 normal school students to her mother, Nestora Salgado said the Mexico of today is surreal and that is precisely why she became a community police. Nestora asked that the students not be left alone, and said that if she were there again, there would be community police so that those things wouldnt happen. Deputy López Suárez recalled that negotiations had been established with the previous government of Guerrero to gain the transfer of Nestora Salgado to a prison in Mexico City, as a first step for her subsequent release. Unfortunately the dialogue was suspended due to the events in Iguala. We ask the new state government to follow up on the case so that her prompt release may be achieved. Voices of Mexico, by Reed Brundage jornada.unam.mx/2014/10/28/index.php?section=politica&article=010n3pol&partner=rss
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:50:52 +0000
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