Zero Impunity? In the case of the journalists killed this year, it is 100%!

“Zero Impunity” bears the title of a document prepared and released yesterday by the Secretariat for Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). It outlines what the unit considers its achievements during the current month.

These are the cases included:

Arrest on May 4 of a man in Querétaro, accused and linked to a process for aggravated kidnapping in Guerrero.
Arrest on May 7 of two women in Agua Prieta Sonora, accused of kidnapping a newborn, femicide and other crimes. The baby was rescued safe and sound. They are not linked to process yet.
Arrest on May 2 of a man in Toluca, accused and linked to a process for aggravated extortion.
Link to the process of 24 municipal police officers from Acatlán, Puebla, on May 6, accused of usurpation of functions, among other things. Arrested on April 29, they are being investigated for their participation in the murder of whoever was the director of that municipal police and his wife, on April 22.
Arrest on May 9 of the PRD municipal president of Acatlán, accused of improper exercise of functions and cover-up. He is not yet linked to the process.
Arrest, on May 3 and 4, of 11 people in various places in Guanajuato who had in their possession high-caliber weapons, cartridges for them, and drugs. They are not linked to process yet.
Arrest on May 6 in Tula, Hidalgo, of a couple of kidnappers and rescue of a 10-year-old boy who was kidnapped in Ixtapaluca, Edomex. They are not linked to process yet.
On May 7, the PGR reported that 11 male kidnappers captured in 2018 were sentenced to 50 years in prison in the State of Mexico.
Arrest, on May 5, of eight kidnappers in Villa de Allende, Veracruz, and release of their victim. They are not linked to process yet.
Arrest on April 29 of two men and two women on the Oaxaca-Isthmus Federal Highway, near the San Dionisio Ocotepec crossroads, Oaxaca. Linked to process by resistance of individuals. Possible kidnappers.
Four pages of the report give an account of the investigations into the femicide of Debanhi Escobar, in Nuevo León, and the murders of journalists Luis Enrique Ramírez, on May 5 in Culiacán, and Yessenia Mollinedo and Sheila García Olivera, on May 9 in Cosoleacaque, Veracruz. None have been clarified.
The last two pages refer to the murders of nine journalists from January 1 to May 11, despite the fact that 12 have been murdered. The PGR list does not include Roberto Toledo, killed in Zitácuaro on January 31, Marcos Islas Flores, murdered in Tijuana on February 6, and Jorge Camero Zazueta, killed on February 24 in Empalme, Sonora.
Of the nine cases, the report indicates that there are 19 detainees or wanted (without specifying how many in each category), 16 of them linked to the process and zero sentenced.

The title of the report does not match its content. Outside of the 11 kidnappers who will spend the next 50 years in jail, none of the other alleged criminals identified in it have been sentenced; some have not even been linked to the process. As far as the murdered journalists are concerned, impunity continues to be 100 percent.

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