Authorities Arrest Suspected Killers of Activist Who Helped Families Search for Missing Children AFP News | |
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Mexican Activist for the Disappeared Shot to Death on Mother's Day (United News International)
Mexican authorities have arrested two suspected killers of an activist who helped families search for their missing children, calling her murder an apparent revenge attack by escaped inmates she helped jail.
Miriam Rodriguez Martinez was well-known in Mexico for her campaign to find her missing daughter, who was abducted by drug cartel thugs in 2012. She finally found her two years later, buried in an unmarked grave.
Accusing the authorities of failing the families of Mexico's legions of missing persons, she tracked down information that helped put her daughter's killers in jail.
She then turned to helping others in the same situation as head of the Missing Persons Collective of San Fernando, in the violent northern state of Tamaulipas. She was gunned down at her home on May 10 - Mother's Day in Mexico.
Police have now arrested two men for her killing, both of whom had escaped from prison in March in the state capital, Ciudad Victoria, state prosecutor Irving Barrios Mojica said Thursday.
They are still searching for two other escaped inmates who are also suspected in the killing, he said.
Rodriguez's killing triggered outrage in Mexico and drew international condemnation.
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Related: Mexico: Activist Slain in Revenge for 'Disappeared' Search (Associated Press)
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