Rosario Ibarra de Piedra dies at the age of 95

The pioneering human rights activist, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, died this Saturday, April 16 at the age of 95, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León.Through a statement, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), which is led by her daughter Rosario Piedra, announced the death of her mother, one of the most prominent women in the search for the disappeared in Mexico. The CNDH regrets the sensitive death of the social fighter, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, mother of our president, of Claudia, Carlos and Jesus this morning in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León,” the agency said on its official Twitter account.Read more: While you are at home in Tabasco, your dead increase: Vicente Fox is going against AMLOWho was Rosario Ibarra? Twice a candidate for the Presidency of Mexico, in 1982 and 1988, Ibarra was the mother of Jesús Piedra, a member of the Communist League 23 de Septiembre, a clandestine armed group, and who was captured and disappeared by the Federal Directorate of Security in the 1970s.In her struggle to locate her son, she joined other women with missing relatives and in 1977 she was the founder of the Eureka Committee in defense of the Rosario Ibarra was also a senator in 2006 for the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). In July 2019, the Chamber of Deputies awarded him the Medal of Civic Merit “Eduardo Neri and Legislators of 1913” which is awarded every year to citizens who have distinguished themselves by serving the collectivity, the Republic and humanity, standing out for their civic, political or legislative deeds. That same year, the Mexican Senate awarded him the Belisario Domínguez medal, the highest civil recognition in this country. In addition, together with the now Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he starred in different social struggles in various parts of the country, such as the Zapatista uprising of 1994, the demand to stop and clarify the murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and the massacres of indigenous people in Chiapas and Guerrero, during the Government of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000). Read more: Héctor Suarez and José Ramón López, SON OF AMLO, star in a fight on TwitterHe was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in the years of 1986, 1987, 1989 and 2006.



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