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Dick (Requiem for a mother courage)

Barely a few minutes from 20:00 local time, when an ambulance took the dying body of a woman who was bleeding on the pavement outside the government palace in the city Chihuahua in the Mexican state of the same name. The state prosecutor later confirmed that the woman died several minutes later at Park Clinic, close to where he was aided by paramedics.

Until yesterday, few people outside of Mexico knew about this woman, the cause for which they fought and why he lost his life. Marisela Ortiz Escobedo was a courageous mother, an activist who spent the last two years of his life to Mexican courts to exercise their duties on the murderer of his daughter, Rafael Barraza Sergio Bocanegra. The killer had been released, acquitted of all charges, after judges Catalina Ochoa Contreras, Vazquez and Rafael Zúñiga Netzahualcóyotl Jury Baudib his release for lack of evidence at the trial held. A few days later, on appeal, blaming these same judges corrected to 50 years in prison, but it was too late, the murderer had sufficient time to escape.

Frayre Ruby Marisol Escobedo was only 14 when she fell in love with Sergio Rafael, since then, until they killed him had not done anything other than submit to a life of fear and extreme violence, the that time away from family and friends. On 28 August 2008 at only 16 years, killed, burned and shot a cemetery illegal dump and pigs. Was violent with her until the last moment, the butchers and fled confident, living quietly Ciudad Juarez, at least until after a while, until the integrity and tireless struggle of the mother managed to stop him justice.

The murderer accepted his guilt, led police to the place where the body of Ruby, pleaded guilty at the hearing and apologized to the family, also tried to negotiate a sentence of twenty years trying to dodge prosecution the maximum penalty it can impose the Mexican justice system, 60 years. However, Sergio Rafael was acquitted of all charges because the judges felt that the self-incrimination was not sufficient to put him behind bars. Needless to say, this event rocked Ciudad Juárez, and opened the wound femicide unresolved. During 2010, each day a woman has been killed in the state of Chihuahua.

From that moment, Marisela fought with superhuman strength because justice was fulfilled by the murder of his daughter. Began a protest march, with her family from Ciudad Juárez to the country's capital until Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza asked him to continue the journey by car, to which he responded. Conducted an investigation on his own and managed to trace the whereabouts of the fugitive murderer, putting Sergio Rafael in Fresnillo, in Zacatecas State, but received no sufficient support and again escaped. After several protests were held trying to draw attention to the murder of Ruby Marisol justice and will not go into oblivion.

His latest staging is wearing a few days ago against the Government Palace, where he was killed by a shot in the head. Surveillance cameras collect those few minutes in which a man walking around the corner, while a white car is at the height of the street where Marisela and a companion, along with the banner displayed. The murderers waited just when it closed its doors Palace Government to meet the threats that had been Marisela by the Barraza family. For the features, it is believed that the subject could be reached by walking Rafael Sergio himself, faces Marisela and her companion, the young man goes into a struggle with the murderer and Mrs. Escobedo while fleeing towards the Palace of Government, but the gunman ran out after her and several yards last shot in the head.

A cruel story that leaves an aftertaste of impotence, injustice, suppressed anger, but far to terminate the account, the events before the funeral shows that all is not said. Last night, while you watched the body of the activist, her family returned to receive threats, if not enough what they have suffered. They set fire to a timber owned by a family of Marisela and kidnapped the owner and an employee of the business as well as serious burns two other employees.

could go throwing blame the violent machismo have Mexico, could continue to use the word femicide and all eyes turning to a society made by men for men, where women suffer and are victims of injustice given by males. I could go with a lot more for women, if not because in this case, much of that responsibility lies with a woman, the very judge that contributed to his decision not only to be cleared of murder, also had the opportunity to once again commit another crime, in this case against an exemplary woman. Now that what happened can not be helped, the president of the Supreme Court, Javier Ramírez Benítez, has announced the suspension of three judges who acquitted the murderer Sergio Rafael, after the bill sent by the governor César Duarte. They explained that the three judges will be suspended, but will not be made available, or they take root, will be completely free and only leave their roles as officers. No doubt Mexico needs a new revolution, judicial, police and many levels of society.