After a judge in Guanajuato acquitted four people responsible for the disappearance of teacher Guadalupe Barajas Piña, whose body was found in 2020 on a property in Salvatierra, where 80 bodies were discovered, human rights organizations said that “this ruling is a terrible message of impunity.”
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), Serapaz and the Network All Rights for All (Red TDT) warned that this situation puts at risk the family of the young teacher, the relatives of the 65 people identified and the groups searching for their loved ones in Guanajuato.
Following the decision of the unitary judge of the Oral Trial Court of the Municipality of Acámbaro, Guanajuato, “it shows the deficiencies of local justice.” In particular, they indicated, of a Prosecutor’s Office that could deploy “a more effective strategy in its accusation” and above all of an Oral Trial Court “distant from the victims and indolent.”
The organizations announced that the Barajas family, accompanied by their legal representatives, will appeal this ruling and demand that the Judiciary of Guanajuato examine the case in depth, with the support of international bodies that monitor the case, such as the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH).
They also mentioned that this is the second time that the family has not obtained justice in the first instance, since in the case of their other murdered son, the searcher Javier Barajas Piña, the initial sentence of the Guanajuato judges was also an acquittal, which was corrected in the appeal phase, they recalled.
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– 2024-08-27 21:11:53
