María del Rosario Ibarra de la Garza (24 February 1927 – 16 April 2022), also known by her

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Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, was an activist and prominent figure in the

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. She was a presidential candidate and was the serving president of Comité Eureka at the time of her death. In March 2006, the

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(PRD) designated Ibarra as its candidate to the

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via

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to serve during the LX (2006–2009) and LXI Legislatures (2009–2012); she won.

Personal life

Ibarra was born in

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, to an agricultural engineer father and a violinist mother. She studied in

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, and then met Jesús Piedra Rosales, who would become her husband. She became involved with the community, especially when her son,

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, an activist who disappeared on 18 April 1975, in Monterrey, Mexico after the murder of the policeman Guillermo Valdez Villarreal. Jesús was accused of being a member of the communist organization ''

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''. When her cries for resolution were unheard she formed the ''Comité Eureka de Desaparecidos'' ("The Eureka Committee of the Disappeared") with about 100 other women in 1977. As a result of her efforts, including several

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s, 148 out of 557

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s on her lists were liberated during the López Portillo administration (1976–1982). In December 2005, Carlos Solana Macías was apprehended for the abduction of Rosario's son.

Political career

In 1982, she became the first woman to run for the presidency of Mexico, postulated by the

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Workers Revolutionary Party (PRT). She would run for president in a second occasion, again with the PRT, in the

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Chamber of Deputies

Ibarra de Piedra served two terms as federal deputy, with the PRT in 1985 and with the

(PRD) in 1994. In both terms, she arrived to Congress via the method of

(plurinominal).

Senate

In March 2006 the PRD designated Ibarra as their candidate to the

, also via proportional representation, to serve during the LX (2006-2009) and LXI Legislatures (2009-2012); as a result of that designation she was able to secure a seat in the Senate representing the PRD, but in October 2006 she left the PRD faction in the Senate to join the Labor Party (PT) faction as part of a political negotiation between the PRD and the PT.

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor

Rosario Ibarra was awarded the

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on 23 October 2019. Speaking through her daughter, Claudia Ibarra, she turned the medal over to President

Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, public administrator and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He se ...

, saying, ''Señor presidente... no permitas que la violencia y la perversidad de los gobiernos anteriores siga acechando y actuando desde las tinieblas de la impunidad y la ignominia. No quiero que mi lucha quede inconclusa. ... jo... la custodia de tan preciado reconocimiento y te pido que me la devuelvas junto con la verdad sobre el paradero de nuestros queridos y añorados hijos y familiares, y con la certeza de que la justicia anhelada por fin los ha cubierto con su velo protector.'' ("Mr. President... do not let the violence and perversity of the previous governments continue to stalk and act from the darkness of impunity and ignominy. I don't want my fight to be unfinished. ...I leave... the custody of such precious recognition and I ask you to return it to me along with the truth about the whereabouts of our beloved and long-awaited children and family members, and with the certainty that the justice longed for has finally covered with its protective veil.") López Obrador promised to do everything ''humanamente posible'' ("humanly possible") to find the missing persons.

References

External links

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Curriculum vitae (Senado de la República)
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Official site of Comité Eureka *
Mexico clears way for abduction arrests
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