Through tears, Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza’s mother asked for justice before the media for the brutality with which her daughter was murdered last Saturday at the hands of Mexican police.
“I feel indignation, I feel powerless, I feel frustrated. I would have liked to be there as a mother, but one cannot be in all places. She went there but did not deserve that death. The authorities are supposed to protect everyone. his techniques to try to subdue someone, but that was an abuse of authority, “he denounced yesterday.
According to statements by Rosibel Arriaza, Victoria’s mother, the Salvadoran was planning to buy a lot in Tulum where she lived and wanted to build a house to live in with her two daughters, who are 15 and 16 years old. Rosibel wanted to help her daughter with that dream. “She didn’t think of going back. She told me ‘Mom, when you come, I’m going to have my little house.’ But my daughter’s dreams were no longer fulfilled because those people cut them off,” he said.
Rosibel stated that she had not seen her daughter for five years and had not seen her granddaughters for about two and a half years. She was never able to visit them due to financial problems, but they were planning a reunion, one that will only take place with her granddaughters.
The last day he contacted his daughter was Saturday morning. He said it was fine. Yesterday he spoke with one of his granddaughters. Both communications were made by “messenger”.
When Victoria left as an immigrant for Mexico, she had left the two girls in the care of her mother; two and a half years later he sent for them. “She told me that she was fine, that she worked in a hotel cleaning, just like every immigrant is responsible for. Later she took the girls away, so wet,” says the girls’ grandmother.
During Victoria’s childhood and adolescence, Rosibel said that she saw her daughter as a normal girl with her games, her antics and in adolescence with her rebellions, but that she did not go any further. She says her daughter didn’t finish her first year of high school and that was why she couldn’t get a good job. When she worked here in El Salvador, she did it as a salesperson. “Here she sold things, she was not prepared, she was a merchant, she searched for herself like all good Salvadorans,” says Rosibel.
As Victoria was a single mother and had no other relatives in Mexico, the girls have been left without any close support. At the moment, one of the girls was taken away by a Mexican state institution and the other did not want to go out of fear of the police. Her grandmother denounced that her granddaughter is afraid of the Mexican authorities: “the girl says that she is afraid of the police, she thinks that the police can do something to her.” That is why he is doing everything possible to travel to Mexico as soon as possible and to be able to meet them and bring them back to El Salvador.
Rosibel is outraged by the mistreatment that Victoria received and only asks for justice: “I need justice. They should have protected my daughter’s life. I need the full weight of Mexican laws on the guilty and also a compensation from the State of Mexico because there are two girls left in the orphanage. “
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