Activist Sandra Estefana Domínguez Martínez, who denounced state and federal officials for integrating chats in which intimate photos of indigenous women were shared, disappeared along with her husband in Oaxaca, for which feminists and organizations demand their appearance alive.
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The disappearance of the Mixe lawyer and that of her husband, Alexander Hernández Hernández, were reported to the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO).
According to the complaint received on October 8, relatives informed the institution that both people were last seen on October 4, 2024, in María Lombardo, in the Papaloapan Basin region.
According to local media reports, the van in which the couple was traveling, a blue vehicle, was found on the Tuxtepec-Palomares Highway, at the junction with Playa Vicente, on the border between Veracruz and Oaxaca, but their location has not yet been determined.
In 2021 and 2023, the former candidate for deputy for the PRI, PAN and PRD coalition also posted videos on her social networks in which she exposed officials including Donato Vargas Jiménez, current coordinator of Social Peace Delegates in the Government of Salomón Jara, for being among the more than 100 members of those WhatsApp groups where photographs that sexualized women were shared.
The Morena Governor of Oaxaca was informed about these chats called “Sierra XXX” and “Mega Peda”, with content that violates women’s privacy and the Olimpia Law (by claiming that some photos were stolen or shared without authorization), according to the activist.
At that time, feminist groups demanded the resignation of this official, but he remains in office.
This Wednesday, at a press conference, Donato Vargas Jiménez was questioned about the disappearance of Sandra Estefana Domínguez Martínez and her husband, and he assured that he clarified that matter with her at that time, and attributed the dissemination of that news to “political intrigue.”
“Donato Vargas the bad guy, the creator of a chat group Sierra XXX, of naked women, there has been a lot of talk about that topic. I have to tell you that I come from a political movement where there is a lot of grilling, a lot of pointing, a lot of everything and I took that pointing as a political grilling, I never ever responded to a pointing of that nature, because for me it is a political use,” he said.
“Whoever points out is obliged to prove. She (the activist) spoke to me and said: ‘countryman, I was misinformed, they told me that you created a WhatsApp group, Sierra XXX, we have to talk, until then we met, I have nothing against her, it was always taken as a political issue, that’s how I perceived it and I wish she appears alive,” added the Morena member.
Meanwhile, the FGEO stated that upon receiving the report of the disappearance, it immediately activated the investigation work through the General Vice-Attorney’s Office for Victim Assistance, applying specialized protocols that include the gender perspective and deployed a multidisciplinary team made up of personnel from the Search Unit for Missing Persons.
“Likewise, the Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office is carrying out a contextual analysis of both missing persons. This investigation tool will allow for in-depth investigation into the environment and activities of both missing persons, with the aim of obtaining clues that allow identifying the causes and risk factors, as well as clues that may be key to their location,” it said.
The Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) and other organizations have demanded the appearance of Sandra Estefana Domínguez and her husband alive. Among these, the Committee for the Comprehensive Defense of Human Rights, IM-Defensoras Collective, Violence for Being a Woman, Mano Vuelta A.C. and Colectiva Chicatanas.
“We urge the investigation and search authorities to strategically coordinate their efforts to locate them and clarify the facts, respecting the right of participation of family members and friends, in accordance with the Guiding Principles for the Search for Persons of the CED,” requested the UN-DH.
Source: reforma
