El Senado Estatal de California aprobó la Resolución 7 (SR 7) del senador Lara para que el Senado pueda agregar su voz a aquellos en la comunidad internacional que condenan las desapariciones y las muertes de los estudiantes normalistas desaparecidos, como una violación de sus derechos humanos.

Hoy, la Comisión Nacional Mexicana de Derechos Humanos presentará un reporte al Comité de las Naciones Unidas sobre las desapariciones forzadas, declarando que México tiene un “serio problema.”

Para más información acera de esta medida, también agregué el comunicado de prensa en ingles del Senador Lara.

Veronica Rodriguez

February 2, 2015

Contact: Jesse Melgar 916-651-4033/Jesse.Melgar@sen.ca.gov

Lara Resolution Condemning Deaths of Mexico’s 43 Students Approved Unanimously By CA Senate Same Day UN Committee Holds Hearing on Enforced Disappearances

SACRAMENTO, CA — The California Senate today passed Senate Resolution 7 authored by Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) urging the government of Mexico to support further dialogue between the international community and human rights organizations in light of the disappearance and deaths of the forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico. The resolution comes the same day that Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission presents to the United Nations (U.N.) Committee on Enforced Disappearances a report that underscores the country’s “serious problem” with disappearances and lacking a comprehensive national list of those missing to effectively address the problem.

“California joins the international community in voicing our concerns against human rights violations in Mexico and throughout the world,” said Senator Ricardo Lara. “At least forty three young lives have been lost for standing up for what they believed in and many questions about how they went missing remain. I urge the Mexican government to support further dialogue between the international community and human rights organizations to implement human rights reforms that protect free speech and eliminate retribution of any sort for individuals expressing their opinions.”

On September 26, 2014, forty-three college students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Guerrero, Mexico disappeared in Iguala, Mexico. According to Mexico’s Attorney General, Jesus Murillo Karam, evidence indicates the forty-three missing students had been executed and incinerated in the municipal dump of Cocula, Mexico by the Guerreros Unidos cartel.  It has been estimated that 25,000 to 26,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006 and that those disappeared often include vulnerable, such as poor migrants, indigenous people and women and children.

Today, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission presented to the U.N.’s Committee on Enforced Disappearances in Geneva a report that finds the country has a “serious problem” with disappearances and lacks a comprehensive national list of the missing to effectively deal with the problem. Mexico’s Ambassador to the U.N. Jorge Lomonaco faced questioning from the Committee and stated that the country is making a priority of passing laws against forced disappearances and perfecting a database to track the missing.

“It is promising to see Mexican officials take note of this problem and acknowledge that proactive measures are needed to implement positive change,” added Senator Lara. “I stand in solidarity with the families of the forty-three students and commend their courage for speaking out and pushing for increased accountability in Mexico and worldwide.”

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Senator Ricardo Lara was elected in 2012 to represent the 33rd Senate District, which includes the cities and communities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Lakewood, Long Beach, Lynwood, Maywood, Paramount, Signal Hill, South Gate, South Los Angeles, Vernon, and Walnut Park. 

From Javier Galvez:

Mis estudiantes que son CAMPESINOS y están en Universidades y Colegios regresan mañana a Coachella para empesar a grabar el Documental para Telemundo de los Danzantes del Sol después en Feb y Marzo grabaremos en Claremont ,Pomona ,Ontario, Placita Olvera ,Placencia,y Orange ,

Hoy a las 2pm grabo mi programa para Telemundo que sale los Domingos a las 11am.

Pomona Councilwoman Cristina carrizosa informs us that the board of supervisors of san Francisco is taking up a similar resolution that was passed by the Pomona city council requesting an independent international inquiry into the events in iguala … and the prosecution and effective condemnation of the responsible at all levels ((attached is the resolution)

RESOLved, That the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco formally expresses their support for the bereaved relatives and students, and respectfully request an independent international inquiry into the events that happened in Iguala, including a full investigation into the disappearances, and exhaustive establishment of all responsibilities and the prosecution and effective condemnation of the responsible at all levels, in line with international standards of justice; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hereby directs the Clerk of the Board to send a copy of this Resolution to Mr. Andrés Roemer, the Consul General of Mexico in San Francisco, the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate and the Honorable Members of the United States Congress representing the City of San Francisco and surrounding regions.

9th District Supervisor  David Campos,of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors presented the attached resolution, modeled in the one you wrote, to the board for approval today.  I haven’t heard the results of the vote yet. I thought you’d like to hear this.

[Resolution in Support of an Investigation into the Disappearance of Forty-Three Mexican Students]

Resolution in Support of a Full Investigation into the Disappearance of Forty-Three Students from Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.

WHEREAS, On September 26, 2014, in the Mexican City Iguala, Guerrero, forty three students from the Ayotzinapa Rural University (Escuela Normal) were taken by force and are still missing; and,

WHEREAS, The students were mostly children from poor, rural families who were training to become teachers to serve the rural and indigenous poor; and,

WHEREAS, The Mexican authorities failed to promptly and diligently take action and did not start to search for the missing students and adequately protect the survivors and the families without delay; and,

WHEREAS, The recent events in Guerrero expose serious issues of impunity, collusion between police officers and organized crime gangs and excessive use of force and therefore must be addressed for remedial action; and,

WHEREAS, This incident reverberates with the experience of many San Francisco residents whose families have suffered similar violence in Latin America, including the 60,000 Mexican Americans residing in San Francisco; now, therefore, be it

RESOLved, That the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco formally expresses their support for the bereaved relatives and students, and respectfully request an independent international inquiry into the events that happened in Iguala, including a full investigation into the disappearances, and exhaustive establishment of all responsibilities and the prosecution and effective condemnation of the responsible at all levels, in line with international standards of justice; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hereby directs the Clerk of the Board to send a copy of this Resolution to Mr. Andrés Roemer, the Consul General of Mexico in San Francisco, the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate and the Honorable Members of the United States Congress representing the City of San Francisco and surrounding regions.

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