Is not all the truth

Seventy two migrants of different countries traveled from Mexico to the United States. They were kidnaped and killed on August 2010 in a simultaneous way in San Fernando, Tamaulipas; the next year, on April and May, deep in the ground of this same town in Northern Mexico, 47 mass graves were found with no less than 193 men and women.   The next year, on May 2012, not far from San Fernando, the remains of 49 people were thrown over the highway of Cadereyta, Nuevo León.

These are the three major massacres that happened in Felipe Calderón Hinojosa´s government; during his ruling there were gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity that need a deep investigation.

In our region, for many citizens, the pain of these atrocities will be an infinite one.  However, at that time, those events not only caused fear but terror between the citizens.   Terrorism appeared in our cities and towns and yet we do not know how and why it happened.

During the last three years, different people and groups from the civil society have run labyrinths of the Mexican bureaucracy trying to declassify the files regarding these tragedies in order to shed some light where there are only shadows.   As the possibilities have been exhausted at the Federal Transparency Institute and the General Attorney´s Office, now the decision is on the Supreme Court´s hands.  Before an exceptional situation, there are exceptional actions required.

This is why we need a public version of the criminal investigationscarried on these events, which became part of the humanitarian crisis inflicted on Northeastern Mexico.  The Supreme Court of Justice could set a great precedent to avoid the corruption held within the Public Ministries which should investigate the events, to fight against impunity and to start building a historic truth that help in the construction of the social fabric.

This is not a problem of a specific number of 283 victims killed in three different moments.  The Mexican society was a victim of the terrorism that paralyzed the lives of hundreds of towns and cities.  This should not happen again so it is important that the government take the necessary actions to repair the damage, to recognize the omissions, to confront its mistakes and to sanction those responsible.

Among the information known by now –very little because of the impossibility to make journalism in the region- there is some about the participation of policeman in the events occurred in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, -.  However, we do not know anything about the possible collusion of other authorities neither about the actions Enrique Peña Nieto´s government is doing to bring justice for the cases that occurred during the “War against the drug cartels”.

To banish the fear, there must be truth.