Rosario Ibarra de Piedra (1927) is a Coahuila activist who comes from a family active in the Mexican Revolution. He began his political life after the disappearance of his son, Jesús Piedra Ibarra, 21 years old.
In 1972 Jesús was accused of belonging to the armed movement known as the Communist League September 23. After the murder of a policeman, Jesús Piedra disappeared.
From then on, Rosario began the search for her son through government institutions. To date, the information about the fate of Jesús Piedra has not been clarified. However, some files indicate that the young man was imprisoned and tortured in different clandestine prisons. The kidnapping was carried out by members of the Federal Security Directorate in Monterrey.
The Eureka!
Because of this, in 1977 Rosario founded the Committee Eureka!, an organization of mothers and relatives of the disappeared and political prisoners. The movement was dedicated to protesting against the illegal arrests and murders of anti-government militants in the chapter known as the War dirty.
In turn, the Committee Eureka! He pointed out former President Luis Echeverría, who was prosecuted for state terrorism, as the main person responsible for the disappearances. Also, López Portillo was accused of the 1968 student massacre, for which he served a house sentence. To this day, the Eureka! has managed to recover alive 148 disappeared.
In those same years, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra went on a hunger strike for the release of political prisoners. At the end of 1978 the government published an amnesty law, but the whereabouts of the disappeared were not clarified. The amnesty achieved the release of 1,500 prisoners detained with irregularities, the return of 57 exiles and the cancellation of 2,000 arrest warrants.
In 1982 Rosario de Ibarra Piedra became the first woman candidate for the presidency of Mexico. Their main objective was to take their struggle to a larger scale, in addition to contributing to the democratization of the country.
In 1988 she again participated as a presidential candidate for the PRT. After the elections, she joined the protests accusing electoral fraud.
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize and has received numerous awards for his fight for Human Rights in Mexico. She also served as a senator and is the founder of the Casa de la Memoria Indómita Museum. She is currently a candidate for the Belisario Domínguez Medal.
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