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Ask for support to collect funds for the caravan. Courtesy: Maricruz Nájera
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*Families will undertake a caravan to ask for justice for their daughters, who were victims of femicide.
The families of Karla Yesenia and Jade Guadalupe, victims of femicide, will set up a bazaar from February 16 to 26, in the Central Park of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, they also invited people to donate clothes, shoes, toys and electronic devices in good condition. The proceeds will be used to travel to Mexico City to demand justice for their daughters.
Maricruz Velasco Nájera together with Adriana Gómez, mothers of the victims, announced that this collection of funds is to undertake a new caravan on March 1, 2022, the second year in which they made this trip. The route has 6 municipalities as points, the last point is Nezahualcóyotl, to later hold a sit-in at the Ministry of the Interior, awaiting the march of International Women’s Day (8M).
In addition, Velasco Nájera and Gómez indicated that for those people outside the capital city, but who are interested in donating, they can contact them through the telephone number: 961 197 5346, to indicate how to send their contribution.
At the same time, they recalled that their only objective is to ask for justice because in Chiapas “they don’t look at them.” In each of the 6 points, they will report on the corruption of which they have been victims, as well as invite other mothers who live the same situation to join the caravan.
We ask citizens to come to make purchases of what they have donated to us and those who want to give us a donation in cash or things will be there from three in the afternoon to seven at night, said Velasco Nájera.
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Families victims of femicide in Mexico. Courtesy: Karla Velasco Foundation
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On March 8, 2021, the Karla Velasco Foundation, made up of four families, began a caravan to Mexico City, with the aim of holding rallies in various municipalities until they reached their destination, demanding justice for cases of femicide. against his daughters.
Velasco Nájera shared that the idea arose from the creation of the foundation that opened on December 24, 2020. At that time, he talked with his family about taking actions to be able to mobilize with his daughter’s research folder, as of other cases of femicide.
In the face of violence, he added that the state authorities are oblivious, becoming a modality, filing a complaint, not taking it and paying attention only until the victim is found dead.
Work table
Although in their first caravan they did not meet with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico. The families managed to have a working table with 5 federal deputies, among them María Wendy Briceño Zuloaga, Carmen Patricia Palma and Marta Dekker Gómez, who demanded that Rutilio Escandón Cadenas, governor of the State of Chiapas, have priority to receive them because “they are hungry for justice ”. In addition, they were in charge of looking for a work table with Cecilia Flores Pérez, secretary of the Government.
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Karla Yesenia Gómez Velasco was 21 years old when she was found dead in early July 2018 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The young woman’s family assured that the girl was murdered, her body had traces of violence, a man is detained as the alleged perpetrator, but the process was suspended due to bad practices and bureaucracy of the Chiapas Judiciary.
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Activities of the Karla Velasco Foundation. Courtesy: Karla Velasco Foundation
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Jade Guadalupe Yuing Gómez, 13, was a teenager who lived in Copoya, next to her family. According to her mother, she was a very happy girl, who from a very young age had expressed a taste for different artistic, cultural and sports activities, but on January 14, 2020, her body was found lifeless in the facilities of the Sports Institute of Chiapas (Indeporte) by his colleagues.
At 1:50 in the afternoon that day, Adriana Gómez, her mother, received a call from one of Jade’s colleagues, telling her that her daughter had committed suicide in the bathrooms of the sports village, something that She couldn’t believe it, since none of the Indeporte authorities had formally communicated with her.
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