US Woman Jailed in Mexico Hopes to Be Set Free, But Won't Abandon Her People
Jaime Mendez - KOMO News
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March 16, 2016
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A Renton woman currently imprisoned in Mexico is hoping to be set free this week.

Nestora Salgado had left behind her comfortable life in Renton to fight against organized crime in her hometown of Olinala, Guerrero.

"Who cares? Who cares what happens in these towns," Salgado told KOMO News.

She says nobody in the government cares about the massacres and injustice that the indigenous people in the small towns in Mexico deal with today, adding that media only shows a fraction of the crimes.

"But it's not even one-fourth of what is really happening," she said.

...Now though, more than ever, her family and hundreds of supporters there and in the United States believe she could go free.

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