Beyond The Horizon
The Tragic Tale Of Rosario Rodríguez Barraza (6/25/24)
Rosario Rodríguez Barraza, a mother and activist searching for her missing son, was murdered in Sinaloa, Mexico, on August 30, 2022. She was abducted near her home after attending a mass in honor of her son, Fernando Ramírez Rodríguez, who had been missing since October 2019. Armed individuals in a white Suburban took her, and her body was found the following day. Despite her efforts to provide evidence and witnesses to authorities regarding her son's disappearance, no significant action had been taken by prosecutors.
Rosario’s murder marks her as the third volunteer grave search activist killed in Mexico since 2021. These volunteers, mostly mothers of the over 100,000 missing people in Mexico, face significant risks, including threats and violence, as they search for their loved ones' remains. They often receive little protection or support from authorities, who sometimes fail to take adequate action on the information provided by these activists.
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Mexico's drug war has taken a serious toll on the population of the country, and a lot of people have turned up missing and have never been seen again. No answers from the authorities, no answers from anybody, for these families that are looking for their missed loved ones. And a lot of the people who have been caught up weren't even directly related to any sort of cartel or gang or violence in general. But in Mexico, there is a serious problem of people going missing. And now, the third volunteer who is looking for people who have been murdered in Mexico or are missing in Mexico, has been killed as she looks for her son. So now, they're targeting the activists who are searching for their children's remains. And the crazy part is, these activists have already came out and said publicly, they're not looking to find the people responsible. All they care about is finding the remains or their loved ones. But the people that they're dealing with are truly evil, and they have no desire to let any investigation happen, and they don't care what people say if you're just looking for your loved one or you want justice, you're not going to find it here. That's basically what these cartels are saying. And we've talked several times about Mexico descending into a narco state. And I'll tell you, it's looking more and more likely each passing day. The government can't get their arms around what's going on down here, and it's spiraling out of control. I thought that when Amlo took over, things would cool down a little bit, but everything is getting worse. There's a huge femicide problem in Mexico. I mean, you know how many missing women there are down there? We've discussed that at length as well. It's a serious problem down there. But missing people in general in Mexico is a huge thing. And if you don't think we, you think we don't have resources here to find missing people, boy, oh boy, don't go missing in Mexico because unless it's a volunteer search or your family is going to find you, you definitely can't rely on the authorities. Today's article is from the AP, third volunteer grave search activist, killed in Mexico. And it looks like this article was authored by the associated staff press. Yet another mother searching for her disappeared son has been killed in northern Mexico, becoming the third volunteer search activist killed in Mexico since 2021. And how brutal and how gross do you have to be to murder a mother looking for her loved one? What danger does she post to you? Even if they find their children, their bodies, their remains, whatever, what's there going to be some kind of large, all-encompassing FBI forensic study? Of course not. Nobody's going to get in trouble for this. So it simply comes down to the cartels looking to flex their might. Looking to show, hey, look, don't get involved in our business. I don't care if you're a mother, a father, if you're not involved, it doesn't matter. Where are the ones who are calling the shots here? How dare you look for your loved one? That's basically what they're saying here. And I find that to be atrocious. Reuben Rochamoya, the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, identified the dead woman Wednesday as Rosario Rodriguez Baraza. I deeply regret the killing of Rosario Rodriguez Baraza, a tireless fighter, like many other women in Sinaloa who are looking for their loved ones. Rochamoya wrote in his social media accounts. That's all fine and well, great platitudes and all, Mr. Rochamoya. But how about protecting these people? How about making sure that people who are looking for their loved ones aren't murdered by some criminal group who's looking to pass a message on? And then the regular people of Mexico see this and they understand very quickly that they're not protected. So what are they supposed to do? Who are they supposed to turn to? Representative Paloma Sanchez, a congresswoman from Sinaloa, said Rodriguez Baraza was abducted near her home and killed Tuesday. The international day of the disappeared, which was marked in Mexico by marches and protests, sending a message. That's obviously what they're trying to do here. They know this lady's looking for her kid, the day of protest. They kidnap and kill her on this day. Certainly not a coincidence, right? Not down here, not when we know everything we know about the current situation. The motive in the killings remained unclear because most searchers say publicly they aren't looking for evidence to convict killers. The volunteer search teams, usually made up of mothers of Mexico's over 100,000 missing people, say they only want to find the bodies of their loved ones to mourn and properly bury them. Now, for context purposes, think about this for a minute. 100,000 missing people in Mexico over the years, right? We got 107,000 overdose deaths in America in one year. Pretty gross comparison when you look at it, isn't it? And it's all on the back of the war on drugs. In a video posted by Asta and Contreres, another search group, Rodriguez Baraza is heard saying the classic phrase, "I'm looking for my son. I am not looking for the culprits." Her son, Fernando Ramirez Rodriguez, hasn't been seen since he was abducted in the town of La Cruz Cinaloa in October 2019. La Cruz is located on the Pacific coast between the port of Mazelan and the state capital of Kulakan. So Cinaloa, her son was abducted, and for what reason? Who knows? Was he involved in drugs? Who knows? All we know for sure is, dude was abducted, and his mom has never seen him again, and now she's out searching for her son, as part of one of these search groups, and she goes missing as well, and then she's murdered? Certainly seems like a big stretch to think that's a coincidence, no? Cinaloa is home to the drug cartel of the same name. Rodriguez Baraza said, "Armed men in a white car snatched her son, then 20." Since then, despite conducting her own investigation, and offering prosecutors the evidence, she has not heard anything. Look, a lot of these prosecutors don't want to get involved in this shit. A lot of them are on the payroll of these cartels, a lot of them are being threatened by the cartels, and it's at a point now where it's rather obvious what's going on. How many people need to come forward with evidence about their loved ones down in Mexico before the authorities take real action? But that's not the reality down there. If you bring it to the authorities, chances are, that information's going to end up in the hands of some cartel leader. I took them videos, I bought them witnesses, and up to now, they have not done anything for me, she said, of the prosecutors, which is scary to me knowing now what we know about how she ended up getting killed. Was it somebody in the prosecutor's office, pass this information on to the cartel, and the cartel says, "You know what, screw you, we have a message of our own that we want to pass on." That is a common tale in Mexico. Faced with official inaction or incompetence, many mothers are forced to do their own investigations, or join search teams which, often acting on tips, cross gullies and fields, sinking iron rods into the ground to detect the telltale stench of decomposing bodies. I can't even imagine. You're out here looking for your loved one, and this is how you have to go about it. You're using a metal rod that you stick into the ground, or an iron rod I mean, to stick into the ground for the telltale stench of decomposing bodies. And imagine this is how you stumble upon your loved one? How about some dignity for people for God's sakes? Most of the victims are thought to have been killed by drug cartels, their bodies dumped into shallow graves, dissolved or burned. Bacon kidnapping gangs often used the same locations over and over again, creating grisly killing fields. There was also a guy who got busted working for the cartels, who they called the "stumaker", and it was his job to make all of these bodies disappear. He'd use a concoction of acid or whatever, and dissolve all of these bodies. Well he ended up getting busted by the authorities, and I forget the exact number of people they said he got rid of, but it was an insane amount of people who were melted and shit by this guy called the "stumaker". The searchers and the police, who sometimes accompany them, focus on finding graves and identifying remains, not collecting evidence of how they died or who killed them. 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How about we end prohibition and we end all this bullshit along with it? I know, I know, crazy idea. Among the search groups known as "collectives" in Mexico, human remains aren't referred to as corpses or bodies. The searchers call them "treasures" because to grieving families, they are precious. Searchers usually call law enforcement when they think they found a burial, mostly because authorities often refuse to conduct the slow but critical DNA testing unless the remains are professionally exhumed. They just don't want to get off their ass. They're way too busy doing whatever else it is they're doing down there. They should want to get down here and do a full forensic workup. But it's not like it here is here in America. Imagine a burial site like this was found in America? It would be wall to wall news coverage with every single forensic team the FBI had down there conducting forensics. A group of search collectives issued a statement Wednesday demanding protection for searching mothers. No mother should be killed for searching for her children. The coalition wrote, "On the contrary, the government is obligated to ensure their safety in continuing their searches as long as thousands of cases of disappeared people continue to pile up. The government has not been helpful at all. And when these cartels get out there and say, "Oh, we're for the people, we're for the people," and then we see this shit happen, nobody buys it. So for me, there's only one place to come to at this point. And that is that Mexico is slowly descending into a narco state. Each time we turn around, there's a new atrocity that the government can't get their arms around. So what else are we going to call it? And if you can't even defend mothers who are looking for their loved ones as the government, then what good are you at all? 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