On July 23, PBI-Mexico posted on Facebook:
“Accompaniment in Michoacán
Last Wednesday [July 16], PBI Mexico accompanied Cofaddem ‘Alzando Voces’ [the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons in Mexico – Raising Voices] during the Cultural Ceremony for the Disappeared of the Purépecha People in Morelia, Michoacán.
Together with indigenous communities from the Purépecha Plateau, they commemorated 51 years since the disappearance of the Guzmán Cruz family and reiterated their call for their case to be reviewed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The Centro Prodh, a member of our Support Network in the state of Guerrero, also participated in the event.
At PBI Mexico, we continue to accompany those who defend the right to truth, justice, and memory.
#Michoacán #Disappearances #Justice #HumanRights #InternationalAccompaniment #PBI”
Prior to the event, Evangelio News had reported: “To commemorate 51 years of impunity and renew the demand for justice, relatives and groups will hold a Political-Cultural Act this Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 a.m. at the Clavijero Cultural Center, in the city of Morelia. The day seeks to be a space of memory, but also of denunciation. ‘It is no longer just a disappearance, we are the resistance’, said members of the Guzmán Cruz family, also remembering the mother of the disappeared, who dedicated her life to the search without receiving a response from the State. The event will bring together activists, academics and artists, in an effort to make visible that the wound is still open and that justice, after half a century, is still a pending debt.”
And on July 3, Somoselmedio had explained: “The history of resistance of the Guzmán Cruz family, originally from the P’urhépecha community of Tarejero in Zacapu, Michoacán, is still valid after 51 years of impunity. Between 1974 and 1976, José de Jesús Guzmán Jiménez and his four children—Amafer, Solón Adenauer, Armando, and Venustiano Guzmán Cruz—were detained, tortured, and disappeared by the Mexican Army and the now-defunct Federal Security Directorate, in a context of systematic repression against social movements. His crime, described as ‘against humanity’, marks the first documented case of forced disappearances in Michoacán.”
We continue to follow this.
