Ernestina Godoy follow-up tables with search collectives from 11 Mexican states, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico): Ernestina Godoy Ramos, head of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico (FGR), agreed to promote follow-up tables with search collectives and civil organizations from 11 states of Mexico.
The meeting was intended to open a direct communication channel to review and address the specific demands of these groups. Godoy Ramos stated that coordination and information exchange in security tables serve to handle cases affecting entire peoples or communities.
Godoy Ramos and representatives of social organizations, peoples and collectives agreed that goodwill and a willingness to work are essential to address social problems stemming from community displacement, disappearances of persons, and attacks on human rights or environmental defenders.
“Together we are stronger,” the prosecutor said at the close of the meeting with members of the collectives, with whom it was agreed to promote follow-up tables on the various problems they raised.
Representatives of the Unidad Nacional Independiente en Resistencia, the Frente Unido Popular de la Montaña in Guerrero, the Frente Unido de Pueblos de La Laguna in Durango, the Movimiento de Unificación y Lucha Triqui Independiente, and the Zeferino Ladrillero Human Rights Center, among others, took part in the meeting. During the dialogue, attendees addressed particular cases that received attention from Carlos Frausto Martínez, head of the Technical Secretariat; Mariana Díaz Figueroa, Specialized Prosecutor for Human Rights; Norma González Jiménez, Special Prosecutor for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Persons, Peoples and Communities; Alonso Lara Bravo, Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of the Crime of Torture; and Ruth Zenteno López, Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression.
The Attorney General highlighted coordination with the Secretariat of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación), state and municipal authorities, the National Search Commission, the Executive Commission for Victim Support, and the prosecutors’ offices of each state.
