Mexico City.- While David Monreal, governor of Zacatecas, boasted about the reduction of violence in the State, a mother who spent months searching for her son until she found him in the State morgue, where they had denied him, and who is also looking for her son-in-law, interrupted him by shouting, to which the Morena member commended her to God at the end of his report.
“Fucking murderous dog, give me back my son, why don’t you show your face to me?” shouted Virginia de la Cruz, mother of the young José Alejandro de la Cruz López, 21 years old, who disappeared in November and whose body was found in the Semefo of Zacatecas, among a pile of corpses, until last July 4.
“That beggar dog does not deserve to be called governor. I could not rest all my anger that I have. I could not rest, but I saw the face of that beggar dog,” said De la Cruz, by telephone, still crying.
The woman was forcibly removed from the auditorium where Monreal was presenting the progress of the Peace Agenda and asking the people of Zacatecas not to speak ill of the entity.
“It is very painful to hear people, many of them even born here, speak so negatively about our state, without considering the damage they cause. The mere expression that is caused about Zacatecas drives away tourists. When people speak badly about Zacatecas, it scares visitors,” said the Morena governor in his speech.
De la Cruz, a 53-year-old former police officer who now makes a living selling candy, complained in an interview that there has been no progress in her case regarding the disappearance and death of her son, an employee of a blacksmith’s shop and another in carpentry, who also collected cans and jars to help her buy her medicines.
His son-in-law, a systems employee, was kidnapped three years ago when he went to work; the police refused to look for him and, to date, have only just opened the investigation file.
“So far I have no answer, the investigation file on my son-in-law has just been opened. But they themselves take our families away from us, that’s why I went to shout the truth to the damn dog. I want them to tell me who killed him, who took my son, where my son-in-law is,” added De la Cruz.
The governor did not stop his speech in response to the woman’s cries as he spoke about road rehabilitation and mobility improvements.
In his report, he highlighted a reduction in intentional homicides, which, according to his records, 135 of them occurred in July 2021, when he took office; 126 in July 2022; 61 in 2023, and 38 in July of this year.
Monreal entrusted the woman to God: “I hope that she will soon have the opportunity, as God allows, to find her loved ones,” he responded in an interview with local media about the interruption.
“I am very sorry for those families who have suffered the loss of their children. But thank God, we are achieving results. Today, the reality is completely different,” he said.
In Mexico, there are more than 115,000 missing persons, more than 3,800 in Zacatecas alone, and more than 52,000 unidentified bodies throughout the country, according to official data.
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