They buried Victoria Salazar in her native El Salvador, murdered by police in Tulum, Mexico

Salvadoran Victoria salazar, died in Tulum, Mexico, after being subdued by the police in a case that recalled George Floyd to the United States due to the brutality of the authorities, was buried this Sunday in a cemetery in the town of Sonsonate, in the south-east of his native country The Savior, in the presence of family and close friends.

The coffin with the remains of Victoria they were transferred to a white car from a funeral home in Sonsonate, 66 kilometers southwest of San Salvador, to a private cemetery of La Generosa, outside the city.

“This day Victoria’s family gave a Christian burial and close friends attended the funeral», Explained to the agency AFP a spokesperson for the Presidential Chamber, including President Nayib Bukele’s government supported the family repatriate, Saturday, the body women from Mexico.

The 36-year-old victim She had lived in Mexico for five years and died on March 27 after being overpowered by police in Tulum., a resort town in the Mexican Caribbean. He had two daughters aged 15 and 16. The case shocked both Latin American countries.

Orphans now They were handed over by the authorities of the Office of the Prosecutor for the Protection of Children, Adolescents and Families of the State of Quintana Roo to the mother of the deceased. who also returned to his country.

“The Mexican Ambassador to El Salvador, Ricardo Cantú, received the mother of the deceased and her daughters at the airport in San Salvador and coordinated the delivery of the body. from Victoria Salazar to the Salvadoran authorities, ”they reported from the Mexican Foreign Ministry.

This Sunday, the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis EscobarAfter lamenting Salazar’s death at a press conference, he indicated that this should displace the governments not only of El Salvador but also of Mexico and the United States. defend and respect “the rights of migrants”.

The attorney general of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, where Tulum is located, reported on Saturday that the four policemen named for the death of Salazar, including a woman, have been formally charged after being captured on the day of the events.

The judge in charge of the case determined that the prosecution had presented sufficient elements to “verify the probable participation of the four police officers in the crime of femicide”, for which they were sentenced to preventive detention, local Mexican authorities said in a statement.

The victim’s family demanded that his death not go unpunished and Bukele demanded justice in this case..

Just in the last few hours, the Colectiva Feminista Tulum reported on their social networks that appeared pints on the mural, which were dedicated to the mayor of Tulum, Victor Mas Tah and against Morena’s party.

“We repudiate and denounce the damage caused to the mural realized in memory of our sister Victoria Salazar, assassinated at the hands of agents of the State in the commune of Tulum ”, denounced the feminists on the social networks.

“These facts show that intention to confront and use the movement that fights for human rights women, to position political parties in an electoral context ”.

On March 27, four Police subdued Victoria Salazar in Tulum and she died with a broken spine, after spending several minutes with one of them on her back. Officers argued that the woman was arrested for disturbing the order, however, some footage from shortly before the arrest revealed that the Salvadoran only entered an Oxxo with a pitcher and s’ was walked around the store.

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, lamented the murder of Victoria Esperanza Salazar. “I would like to express my regret for an unfortunate event that occurred in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.. A woman, Victoria Esperanza Salazar, Salvadoran, was overpowered by the police, by four elements of the Tulum police, she was brutally treated and murdered: it is a fact that fills us with sorrow, pain and shame», Declared the Mexican president.

Tell their loved ones, Salvadoran women, all men and women in the world, that those responsible will be punished, that they are already being prosecuted and that there will be no impunity

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