Joshua Olarte Beard was working in a building in the colony Claudette in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The day passed in the midst of a clash of soldiers against armed men. Suddenly, the father of three girls fell wounded in the nape of the neck. His companions helped him. The military arrived, took him to an ambulance and left him in the hospital San Jose Tuesday 29 January.
That same day in the afternoon, the 28-year-old man was transferred to the hospital’s specialties to improve care. There was nine days in intensive care until he died at midnight on Wednesday, February 6. The bullet lodged in the head caused irreversible damage. Relatives accuse of killing soldiers of the 16th Regiment motorized cavalry.
The family signs the military have unleashed attacks on the victim on social networks. His sister Coraima says that Joshua “always worked as a bricklayer, almost since the end of the secondary, as 17 or 18 years old. He was a bricklayer Assistant”, he said in an interview.
The national human rights Commission (CNDH) confirmed this February 8 the investigation by the involvement of military elements in the worker’s death. On January 30, the sisters and spouse of Olarte beard filed a complaint for the actions of the militia before the body, same which was registered under folio CNDH/2/8684 / 2019/Q.
Olarte family also filed a complaint with the delegation in Tamaulipas of the Prosecutor General of the Republic (FGR), conducted by Federico González Scott. The folder of research to investigate the homicide is the NVO-TAMP-FED. 0000299/LAR/2019, concerns a report of the Committee of human rights of Nuevo Laredo, who has accompanied the case.
Witnesses are afraid to talk. The story of the moment only gave it to Alejandra Segura Silva, spouse of Joshua at noon of January 29, while his sisters organized two collections to pay medical expenses.
UN rejects National Guard and asks legislators to reconsider it a day until the parent died, control of the national defense Secretariat (Sedena) met with Olarte Silva family. In addition, began the investigations on the premises of the 16th Regiment motorized Cavalry, said the Chairman of the Committee, Raymundo Ramos.
Yet this Friday 8 February afternoon, Coraima and Alejandra were not receiving the body of Joshua. “We are in the Hernandez funeral home because they told me that they have to pick it up hood Valdez. “We decided to watch it at home and that the chapel Valdez not can take it (the family home) that have to be Hernandez funeral home”, explained her sister.
Olarte Silva family sent a letter explaining the case to the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; the holder of the Secretaría de Gobernación (Segob), Olga Sánchez Cordero, and general Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, owner of the Sedena.
Monday, February 11, the NHRC staff will meet with the relatives to agree on possible measures precautionary. Until now, the attention to victims (CEAV) Executive Committee has not intervened, according to the Committee.
The death of Josué Olarte is given in full discussion by the approval of the National Guard. Raymundo Ramos argues that the fact “is a test that is not going to change things”.
What can we expect from the National Guard?
“If the army staff had participation, with a change of Government in a new regime, the least that we expected is that they had recognized that by confusion or mistake they committed that injury, this attack, but not recognize it means that they have not changed or are not willing to change,”said the human rights defender.
“The majority of the military sees in a civil to a criminal in power, then the first thing they do is annihilate them. This demonstrates total lack of protocols for the use of force”, he said.
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