For years it has been evident that in Mexico the State acts with a twisted logic. Where justice is demanded and expected, arbitrariness and abuse arise; when problems should be solved, they are managed and allowed to grow. Victims are not supported, criminalized, persecuted or abandoned. Criminals are not investigated and punished, those who report their crimes and seek the truth are suspected and intimidated. This is how mothers of girls murdered in Ciudad Juárez and the State of Mexico have lived, relatives of disappeared persons in Coahuila or Sonora, defenders of the territory in Oaxaca or Michoacán. This has also been verified by three experts dedicated to the search for truth and justice about the San Fernando graves, black hole of atrocity.
Forced by a resolution of the SCJN, the FGR / PGR released a few days ago documents of its investigation about the San Fernando graves, where the remains of 72 migrants were found in 2010 and those of 196 more people in 2011. In a volume of that file, the expert Mercedes Doretti, a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, Ana Lorena Delgadillo, director of the Foundation for Justice and the Democratic State of Law, and the prominent investigative journalist Marcela Turati, discovered that in 2016 the PGR It initiated an investigation against them for “kidnapping and organized crime”, through which SEIDO agents obtained information about their phone calls, geolocation and even confidential data of the last two. If this abuse of the organized crime law is already aberrant, the fact that the PGR / FGR has kept this investigation open, even under a new government, suggests a possible and disturbing continuity of unlawful practices.
It is alarming and disturbing that three professionals who sought to help identify the victims of the massacre, support the demands for justice of relatives of Central America or Guanajuato (to whom , as in previous cases, the remains of another person were handed over); or contribute to the clarification of the facts through the testimonies of survivors and relatives, and the denunciation of irregularities committed by State agents. That he can even wield a law devised against the worst criminals to spy on those who should rather be his allies, if truth and justice are of interest to him, illuminates one of the darkest faces of the state apparatus. Are these practices not reminiscent of the shady DFS maneuvers of the 1960s? Why is impunity for atrocities favored?
While, with the public information available, it is difficult to understand the motive and purpose of the investigation, its effects and potential damage are as or more serious than the illegal spying on journalists through the Pegasus program. As Ana Lorena Delgadillo pointed out in a press conference, it is chilling that they have been included in the same file as members of organized crime. In the words of Marcela Turati, this is “a blow to investigative journalism” and to freedom of expression (which she has exercised in search of truth and in solidarity with the victims). It is likewise an attack on Doretti and the EAAF, involved in the identification of remains in the Ayotzinapa case, perhaps with the aim of also intimidating members of other international bodies, such as the GIEI.
In solidarity with them, national and international organizations demanded that the FGR close this absurd investigation and protect the confidential data of the three professionals, who already work in high-risk situations. It must also investigate and punish those who, from the shadows, bend the law and abuse the power of the State. As a society we will have to demand it from them, in defense of our right to justice and truth.
Cultural critic
Transmutations
She is a professor of literature and gender and cultural criticism. Doctor in Latin American literature from the University of Chicago (1996), with a master’s degree in history from the same University (1988) and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences (ITAM, 1986).
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