“This situation has locked in pain, anguish, helplessness, anger and the desire to obtain justice“This is how the relatives of the Colombian actress Ania Margoth Acosta Rengifo described to the Mexican authorities the drama of the woman’s disappearance since June 21, 2023, in an event that had as its outcome his burial in Michoacán just a week ago.
Ania migrated to Mexico three years ago in search of Better opportunities. It was even a friend of hers who convinced her to work in that country as a model. Since then, the Chocoana showed on her social networks her walks through some paradisiacal places in that country.
Since June 21, Ania has been swallowed by the earth in the city of Morelia, in Michoacán. Her relatives in Colombia alerted the Foreign Ministry of her disappearance, but they assure that there was no response. Ania’s mother had to look for doors in the organization Strategic Human Rights Litigation, AC. (IDHEAS), where she begged for help to find her daughter.
In fact, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, legal director of IDHEAS, told EL TIEMPO that Ania had entered Mexico several times and that on that last trip her wish was stay to live in that country.
This is how they found the body of Ania Acosta
The discovery occurred in an agricultural area of the municipality of Tarímbaro, about 45 minutes from the center of Morelia.
The bodies were found in the excavations of the Michoacán Prosecutor’s Office of seven men and four women, which were sent to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo).
This same institute revealed that these people were tortured before being murdered, allegedly, with a firearm.
“Ania, from a human rights point of view, has a series of characteristics as a victim which are: first, being a woman, in a context of violence; two: he had a vulnerable condition due to be a migrant; three was a woman of African descent. It is not normal in Mexico to see an Afro-descendant woman; and a quarter, “I lived alone in Mexico.”Gutiérrez noted.
During the months of the disappearance, the tenant where Ania lived He threatened to throw her things into the street. A situation that also became a tense issue for the family and they even had to transfer nearly two million pesos to Mexico to prevent this from happening. Subsequently, the room where the woman lived was searched by Mexican authorities in search of clues.
Since no answers were found at the Embassy, IDHEAS and the Michoacán Victims Commission They agreed to cover the family’s expenses of Ania to be able to bury the woman.
“A very difficult side was the loneliness of the funeral, There were only the two brothers and us in the back. Loneliness was something very painful,” he said.
The story of Ania’s family about the nightmare of her disappearance
For days, they said, Ania’s son – from Colombia – persisted in his attempts to contact her. Four days later, after looking for a way to contact her, it was established that no one knew of the actress’s whereabouts. was missing.
In their testimony, they insisted on the obstacles to contacting the Consulate in Mexico, because in addition to various papers that they had to obtain, the calls they attempted daily were not answered.
But Ania’s crime It’s still a mystery. Some evidence suggests that Ania was forcibly put into a car and has since disappeared. It was also suggested that she had stated that an alleged drug trafficker was sexually harassing her and that this subject, whose identity is not known, would be behind the fact.
By number of people found in the common grave It is thought that a criminal gang would be behind all these homicides. In fact, the way the victims were murdered It is one of the issues that the authorities in Mexico are analyzing. The hypotheses are even reserved by the Michoacán Prosecutor’s Office.
On their trip to Mexico, Ania’s brothers indicated that, in addition to burying the woman, their wish is to ensure that the case is resolved and is not forgotten: “The objective is to begin a process so that justice is done. We do not want this case to go unpunished.”
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