The tragic story of the mother who was executed after finding the murderers of her daughter

Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez, a woman from the state of Tamaulipas, devoted the last five years of her life to an objective: find her daughter, Karen Alejandra Salinas Rodríguez, that in 2012, he had been abducted by a criminal group.

In the absence of effective work by the authorities, Miriam founded the community of citizens in search of missing persons in San Fernando, who together with other parents He is dedicated to finding dozens of people whose whereabouts are unknown.

Thanks to your research, two years later found the body of his daughter in a clandestine grave in San Fernando and provided the authorities with the necessary information to the capture of at least nine of the murderers.

From that moment she began to receive threats, but far from feeling fear, she became another woman. active in the search and reporting of missing persons. From that point on, she was always armed with the state's refusal to grant her the necessary protection.

In his last years, Rodríguez Martínez shut down the small businesses that he had For his safety, he devoted himself to San Fernando Health Center.

On different occasions civil society solicited badistance from the United Nations (UN) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) protect human rights activists in Tamaulipas, including Miriam.

A month before his badbadination, he participated in the caravan Against fear in its pbadage through the cities of McAllen and Brownsville, Texas.

The day she was killed, May 10, 2015, Mother's Day, Miriam went home and detected that followed by a white pickup truck who was then detected moving at high speed a few minutes after committing the crime. Days before, one of the prisoners accused of murdering his daughter had escaped from prison.

The group of armed men came to his home and shot him repeatedly. He died during the transfer to the hospital.

She predicted her death a few weeks earlier and reportedly told a close person, "One day they will kill me."

The first investigations of the prosecutor's office revealed that the killers were people with a criminal record and criminal history for many years.

Five months later, One of the men named for his badbadination, Juan Manuel Alvarado López, alias "El Alushe", was killed by elements of the army and the federal police in San Fernando.

Miriam's badbadination sparked a series of protests among activists looking for their missing children and loved ones, as they were not the first to receive threats from criminal groups involved in the disappearance of people.