President Pena Nieto 'Will Receive' Mothers of Disappeared Women from Juarez... in 2015 Anaiz Zamora Marquez - Proceso
go to original June 20, 2013

Mothers of disappeared young women from Juárez maintain vigil.  (Miguel Dimayuga)

MEXICO CITY - President Enrique Pena Nieto agreed to receive the mothers of disappeared young women from Chihuahua, but not until 2015.

Since Wednesday, June 12, the mothers have been maintaining a permanent vigil outside the premises of the Secretariat of Government Relations [SEGOB]. Bertha Alicia Garcia, Silvia Band Pedroza, Rosa Maria Apodaca Granados and Juana Ibarra Castorena announced that this was the response they received from Los Pinos [The Pines, Mexico's White House]:

"We are sorry, but the president's schedule is completely full for 2013 and 2014, so Enrique Peña Nieto cannot personally attend to you over the next two years."

For this reason, the mothers of Brenda Berenice Castillo, Fabiola Janeth Valenzuela Banda, Patricia Jazmín Ibarra Apodaca and Gabriela Espinoza Ibarra - all of whom disappeared between 2009 and 2011 - decided to hold a rally in front of the Senate to demand that the elected representatives mediate with the president that he might receive them.

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