Michelle Bachelet: "Visit Mexico was emotionally very strong"

For Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner, her visit to Mexico was not only an official visit: the voices she gathered from relatives of missing persons reminded her when she herself was a victim of human rights violations during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet

On her last day in the country, the former president of Chile told the media that her first visit to Mexico with her current position had caused her many sensations. "It was emotionally very strong. From one side, I heard the pain of families, but also a pain that was not unknown to me. I am the daughter of a missing person, the wife of a political hangman, tortured … Then, it was a part of my story "he explained.

He even stated that the demands and petitions of relatives of missing persons and civil society in general in states such as Nuevo León, these are the same ones she witnessed in her country when the people sought justice for victims of enforced disappearance. "These are the same symbols, the same cries, there is a demand for freedom and justice that is the same:" They were taken alive, we want them alive. These are also the same songs, "said Bachelet.

The gravity of the human rights violations in the country surprised, she said. Despite knowing special cases like, the figures presented to him by the authorities showed him a much larger dimension from what I had in mind.

Some of the data that alerted them was that since 2006, there have been 252,538 violent deaths. There are more registered 40,000 missing persons, 26,000 unidentified bodies, 850 clandestine tombs and 9 women murdered a day.

However, the panorama that it reminded her of the worst years she lived in ChileThey also gave him an optimistic look. He said that if his country could advance and overcome the major human rights violations that relate to justice, the truth, repair and generate mechanisms to ensure non-repetition, Mexico will also succeed.

So, during his visit to Mexico that started on April 4, signed two agreements with the Mexican government contribute to improving the living conditions and the security of the population.

It was the treaty for the formation and functioning of the human rights of the National Guard, in which the United Nations (UN) s is committed to advise and technically badist the training and operations of the security organ. In addition to issuing warnings and recommendations in case of violation.

Michelle Bachelet also signed an agreement to support the Truth Commission in the case of 43 missing Ayotzinapa what happened in 2014. It will seek to clarify what happened with the students of Iguala, in the state of Guerrero, and to find their location, in addition to do justice and punish those responsible.

With regard to other issues such as the protection of journalists, he explained that the United Nations is in the process of diagnosis of the protocols of action in Mexico, then publish an badysis and recommendations to improve it. It also uses the General Torture Act to provide justice to those who have testified and made statements following submissions and torture.