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| MPJD Activists Protest Mexico's 'Two Classes of Justice" Photo: Yazmín Ortega Cortés |
La Jornada: Ciro Pérez
With the immediate arrest of the alleged masterminds and murderers of José Eduardo Moreira,
"the federal government gave a lesson in efficiency and political will, even though it also demonstrated that there are two classes of justice: one for the minority who constitute the political class; the other for the millions of Mexicans who go door to door begging for justice to no avail," said members of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD).
The MPJD members arrived last Wednesday at the Secretariat of the Interior to learn the current state of investigations into the murders and disappearances that they raised a year ago with President Felipe Calderón at the meeting at the Castle of Chapultepec.
"If any of us had bet that this administration, which in its final last days, might be capable of solving even one single case, I assure you that no one would have believed it. It would have been treated as a joke. But you see the paradox of life, they have done it wonderfully well. Doesn't it seem like a terrible way to bring their administration to a close? Justice for some; pain, anguish, impunity for hundreds of thousands more," they protest in a letter to the head of the Interior Secretariat, Alejandro Poiré Romero.Outside the Secretariat building, a group of victims' relatives staged a performance. Dressed in black, they covered each other with a black cord of a length equal to the mass of a human body.
"We want to see if in the administration's last days, the authorities can see us, because for six years we have been invisible, no one turns to look at us," remarked Concepción Guerrero sadly, before adding, "We hope that the next administration may be able to see us, although after the way in which Enrique Peña Nieto left the state of Mexico, we are not confident."In the text directed to Secretary of the Interior Poiré, families of the victims recalled that Felipe Calderón pledged to follow up on a number of cases that were made known in October 2011.
"A year later, nothing has been resolved. What has happened to those cases? What has happened with the other cases brought by the Movement [MPJD] during these months of dialogue?" the protesters asked.They recalled the "great lesson" given by the Mexican Army, the Attorney General's Office, the Navy and the state of Coahuila: resolution within 48 hours of the murder of the son of Humberto Moreira, former state governor and former national leader of the PRI, even when it was treated as a case that fell solely under the jurisdiction of the authorities of the state of Coahuila.
"We came to demand accountability for our cases, Secretary Poiré, knowing that none of our sons, husbands, brothers, have family names like Beltrones, Peña Nieto or Mouriño."
Much later, the official in charge of the Government Unit for the Secretariat of the Interior, Carlos Reynoso, confirmed that no progress had been made in the investigation of their cases. Spanish original