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A mayor of Sonora gives shovels to a group of women to search for their disappeared

2020-11-28T08:03:44.569Z


"That is what they requested of us," defended Sara Valle, councilor of the Guaymas City CouncilMembers of the Guerreras Buscadoras collective receive shovels from the Guaymas City Council, in Sonora, this Wednesday. The mayor of the municipality of Guaymas, in the Mexican state of Sonora, has delivered shovels and buckets to a group of relatives of the disappeared within the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women this Wednesday. The City Council le


Members of the Guerreras Buscadoras collective receive shovels from the Guaymas City Council, in Sonora, this Wednesday.

The mayor of the municipality of Guaymas, in the Mexican state of Sonora, has delivered shovels and buckets to a group of relatives of the disappeared within the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women this Wednesday.

The City Council led by Sara Valle Dessens, from the Labor Party, has also given away gloves, gel, face masks, serums and bottled water, all wrapped in large shiny bows, as reported by the municipal government through social networks.

The city (113,000 inhabitants) has suffered in recent months "a wave" of disappearances, according to local media, and the initiative has sparked controversy.

"That is what they asked of us," Valle defended EL PAÍS.

“We do what they ask us to do.

They know the path they want to follow ”, Valle has justified, adding that on other occasions the municipal government has also provided“ support for gasoline ”to the Guerreras Buscadoras collective, which is dedicated to locating missing persons in the municipalities of Empalme and Guaymas.

The mayor has also argued that the municipality "is not the investigating body" but that "the preventive part corresponds to it": "We are dignifying and training the police in gender, in weapons management ...".

Since October 23, however, more than 22 people have disappeared in Guaymas, according to local journalist José Ramírez.

Sara Valle delivers items to "Guerreras Buscadoras" on International Day to eradicate violence against women ...

Posted by H. Ayuntamiento de Guaymas 2018 - 2021 on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

On the same day that the municipal president delivered the shovels, the undersecretary of Human Rights, Alejandro Encinas, warned in the morning conference of the Government that the area that goes from the municipality of Cajeme to Guaymas "is becoming one of the corridors more violent ”.

In Sonora, a state where violence has grown in recent years, 4,084 people are missing, according to data from the National Registry of Missing Persons.

The measure has been criticized, among others, by Andrés LeBarón, a member of a Mormon clan that has suffered several murders in a decade.

The last was on the border between Chihuahua and Sonora in 2019, when three women and six minors from their family were cremated in the middle of a dispute between criminal gangs.

“The president of Guaymas, Sara Valle, had the detail of giving shovels to mothers of the disappeared.

The level of indolence and cynicism hurts, "he wrote on Twitter.

The state president of the PAN, Ernesto Munro, has also joined in the criticism and has called the actions "insensitive and indolent": "If a loved one disappears because of his ineffectiveness, they give him a shovel to find him."

"I do not see anything strange, nor why criticize.

It is not insensitivity, on the contrary.

We are empathic and that is why they feel confident asking us for these things ”, justified Valle.

"I am struck by the fact that such a show is made when we have made a profound transformation of the municipality," the mayor highlights.

In addition to Valle, which ends its mandate next year, municipal officials participated in the event - among them, the head of Social Development, Ana Luisa Merlos Coronado, and Rosa Icela Pule Jiménez, from the Women's Institute - and around a ten members of the Guerreras Buscadoras collective, with whom this newspaper has not been able to communicate.

Mexico is looking for more than 61,600 people.

Most began to disappear since 2006, when President Felipe Calderón took the Army out onto the streets to fight the cartels.

The violence continues after the arrival to power of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who promised to change his strategy against drug trafficking.

During the first months of this year, more than 100 homicides were registered daily, according to the count of the Security authorities.

And the lack of personnel, resources, forensics and the lack of coordination between the federal and state prosecutors makes it difficult to make progress in the investigations.

Source: elparis

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