Morelia, Michoacan.-Khayra Guadalupe Baena Lopez disappeared on 13 April 2011 in Tlacolula de Matamoros, Oaxaca; his body was found dead two years later. His mother Argarita López no longer has to keep looking, but continues his fight against violence and in favor of all the missing in Mexico.
Argarita counted each day since the demise of Khayra until the day that they found your body: 2 years, 4 months and 19 days.
Today it is a defender of human rights and tireless activist who empowers other mothers that they denounce and request the support that the State grants to the families of the victims of organized crime.
“The Government never will tell you that they have right to economic support, of species and all the facilities to go to the State of Mexico to denounce. The Government will always ignore what is marked in the General Law for victims. “Therefore we, mothers already spent by that help them, is necessary for people to know their rights”.
With a chilling sum of 360 thousand people missing across the country, Argarita has joined following the death of her daughter fight to continue informing all family members who are part of that number and want to continue with the research , since it says many people prefer to remain silent for fear of reprisals.
“We know that the authorities are jacquier with drug trafficking. Many times simply told them to leave things as they are and go to their homes. Those families who insist on recovering their children end up missing or murdered. People are afraid to denounce”.
Argarita, which never ceased to press against his chest the portrait of his daughter mentioned that you only push that has to continue with its struggle is to try to help other mothers that the bodies of their children don’t end up in a mass grave , by what she and others have brought to Michoacan the days of Thomas’s DNA, the scientific unit of the Federal Police, so that there is a real training in recognition of bodies in the State.
The mother of Guadalupe Khayra attended the Forum of pacification and national reconciliation, held this day in the UMNSH, where many people side demanded a “enough” to the violence in which the country is involved and that daily comes to the life of many Mexican innocent s.
