The freedom of Lizbeth Victoria Huerta “is synonymous with impunity for the government of Salomón Jara,” said sisters Elizabeth and Sara Uruchurtu Cruz angrily and helplessly, condemning the judicial resolution that left the former mayor of Asunción Nochixtlán absolutely free, after being accused of being the intellectual author of the forced disappearance four years ago of her sister, the activist Claudia Uruchurtu Cruz.
In a statement, they specified that the release of the former mayor, imprisoned in the Tanivet Prison, since May 7, 2021 along with three other people, will not stop them from demanding truth, justice and reparation, as they will continue to fight to access justice, now from the international level and looking for their sister Claudia.
They recounted in a public letter that December 13, 2024, will be remembered as a symbolic date of how in Oaxaca the Indigenous Justice Chamber and the Fifth Collegiate Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the State of Oaxaca, “decided to modify the sentence issued against Lizbeth Victoria Huerta, Nelci Yanet or Nelci Yanex Vásquez Jiménez and Juan Antonio Hernández Martínez, to facilitate their freedom and to spread a cloak of impunity for the forced disappearance of our sister Claudia Uruchurtu Cruz.”
Sisters Sara and Elizabeth emphasized that this decision will weigh on the conscience of Margarita Leonor Gopar Pérez, Luis Enrique Cordero Aguilar and Abraham Isaac Soriano Reyes, the magistrate and magistrates who decided to modify the sentence. They assured that it will mark the history of Oaxaca and shows how injustice is privileged over the truth, opacity over the pain of the victims, the failure to apply international human rights standards over a limited interpretation.
“In other words, they favored the Governor of the State, Salomón Jara, and the 4T, rather than favoring justice,” they point out.
They said that this decision could not have been more submissive, since they pointed out that the magistrate Margarita Leonor Gopar Pérez occupied this position after being part of the Legal Counsel of Salomón Jara, the same as the magistrate Luis Enrique Cordero Aguilar, who says he has a pluralist perspective and, not having the legitimacy of the indigenous peoples, seeks to be rewarded with the position of minister after the reform of the Judicial system, and finally Abraham Isaac Soriano who came to this position after a scandal for performing two functions in an unconstitutional manner and violating gender parity in the judiciary.
They stressed that it is very regrettable that the administration of justice is in the hands of these people, and of Berenice Ramírez Jiménez, a president who claims to defend women’s rights, to promote protection orders 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in Oaxaca, when she is not capable of guaranteeing that the judiciary administers justice correctly to women who are victims of forced disappearance.
“Our voice is one of anger and helplessness, because we know that we are right, and also of pain, because we wanted a change in our State, but despite this, we also want to tell the Governor of the State, the President of the Court, the Magistrate and Magistrates, including the President of the Republic, that this will not stop us in our demand for truth, justice and reparation,” they added.
They said that they will continue to fight to access justice until they find their sister Claudia.
Source: aristeguinoticias
