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A woman who last month led a march from Juárez to Chihuahua City to demand that Gov. César Duarte give updates on the investigation of her missing daughter has vanished herself.
Karla Castañeda, whose 13-year-old daughter, Cinthia Jocabeth Castañeda Alvarado, disappeared in October 2008 from downtown Juárez while going to exchange shoes, has abandoned her home after allegedly being harassed and intimidated by local and state police last week, according to activists involved with mothers of missing people.
"Her life is now in danger, and she went into hiding to protect herself and her children," said Francisca Galván, an activist and legal adviser for Comité de Madres y Familiares de Mujeres Desaparecidas, an
organization composed of mothers and other relatives of missing women.Galván did not say whether Castañeda is still in Juárez, but confirmed that she and her other four minor children left their modest home in colonia Plutarco Elías Calles, in northwest Juárez, last the weekend.
According to a public complaint posted Monday on the Comité de Madres' Facebook page, on Saturday morning state police allegedly raided and broke into Castañeda's house looking for her because "she was meddling to much in the search of her daughter."
The alleged events prompted the Comité de Madres to meet with the Chihuahua authorities on Monday. Galván and other members from the organization demanded that the state officials
stop the harassment and intimidation.Arturo Sandoval, spokesman of the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office, said that, during the meeting, it was explained to them that the people who allegedly raided Castañeda's house were not police officers but were psychologists from the Crime Victims' Unit, who were trying to offer help to Castañeda.
He denied any allegations of harassment from the psychologists or state investigators who accompanied them Saturday.
Galván said Castañeda and the other victims of the alleged police harassment decided not to make a formal complaint with the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office in Juárez out of fear of reprisals.
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CHIHUAHUA, Chih. (proceso.com.mx).- Karla Jocabeth Castañeda Alvarado, madre de Cinthia Jacobeth, desaparecida el 24 de octubre de 2008 a los 13 años, obtuvo refugio político del gobierno de Estados Unidos tras denunciar amenazas y hostigamiento de autoridades del gobierno estatal.
Castañeda Alvarado, quien encabezó la “Caminata por la vida y la justicia”, tiene otros cuatro hijos con quienes huyó de Ciudad Juárez el pasado 11 de febrero. La familia llegó a la garita internacional de Tijuana y cruzó por San Isidro, California para ingresar al vecino país el 13 de febrero.
Apoyada por organizaciones civiles, la mujer presentó evidencias del acoso que sufrió, entre ellas fotografías, la pesquisa de su hija y notas periodísticas que dan cuenta de su exigencia constante al gobernador priista César Duarte Jáquez para que se esclareciera el caso de Cinthia y de cientos de mujeres desaparecidas.
Las autoridades estadunidenses otorgaron a la familia el refugio político A205 533 105 y le dieron un plazo de seis meses para presentar la solicitud de asilo político, necesaria para permanecer en aquel país.
Francisca Galván, representante legal del Comité de Madres, atribuye las amenazas y el acoso contra Castañeda Alvarado a que ésta confrontó al gobernador Duarte durante una audiencia pública hace unas semanas.
El mandatario estatal asumió una serie de compromisos en los casos de las desaparecidas pero, de acuerdo con las madres, no los ha cumplido.
Galván solicitó a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos que le otorguen medidas cautelares a Castañeda Alvarado, al considerar que corre riesgo.
El sábado pasado, la familia Castañeda denunció que un grupo de policías ministeriales y de la Policía Estatal Única allanó su domicilio.
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