translated from Spanish: Rosario Ibarra will receive the Belisario Domínguez medal

The Senate agreed to award the Belisario Domínguez medal to the activist and former legislator Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, for her struggle and defense for prisoners and disappeared in Mexico. 
Unanimously, the legislators of the special committee voted to recognize the trajectory of Ibarra, who, they argued, dedicated his life to fighting and giving voice to those who do not have it and to the recognition of human rights. 
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Rosario Ibarra is also the leader of the Committee “Eureka!”, an organization born in 1977 with the aim of obtaining justice for prisoners, persecuted, political missing during the so-called Dirty War in Mexico.
His struggle began after the arrest and disappearance of his son, Jesus Piedra Ibarra, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on April 18, 1975, by state troopers, who accused him of belonging to a communist armed group.
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra was the daughter of an agronomist and military engineer in the Mexican Revolution, and wife of a member of the defunct Mexican Communist Party.
The founder of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners, Persecuted, Disappeared and Political Exiles, has dedicated herself to demand that the Mexican state present alive the militants of armed and social political movements that were disappeared during that time .
She participated in hunger strikes in the late 1970s in which she called for amnesty for political prisoners and was twice a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, in 1982 and 1988, for the defunct Workers’ Revolutionary Party, being the first woman to aspire to c In Mexico.
In 2006, she obtained a curul in the Senate, a space where she also demanded clarification of the cases of women murdered in Ciudad Juárez and the killings of indigenous people in Chiapas and Guerrero, during the six-year news of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.
In addition, she has been a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize four times in 1986, 1987, 1989 and 2006.
On February 12, the Chamber of Deputies also presented him with the medal of Civic Merit “Eduardo Neri”.
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Original source in Spanish