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María del Rosario Ibarra de la Garza (24 February 1927 – 16 April 2022), also known by her marital name 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
Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, es, Partido de la Revolución Democrática, ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institut ...
(PRD) designated Ibarra as its candidate to the Senate 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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, Coahuila, to an agricultural engineer father and a violinist mother. She studied in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and then met Jesús Piedra Rosales, who would become her husband. She became involved with the community, especially when her son, Jesús Piedra Ibarra, 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 '' Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre''. 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
hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke a feeling of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most ...
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
1988 Mexican general election General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1988.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p453 They were the first competitive presidential elections in Mexico since the Institutional Revolutionary Par ...
.


Chamber of Deputies

Ibarra de Piedra served two terms as federal deputy, with the PRT in 1985 and with the
Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, es, Partido de la Revolución Democrática, ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institut ...
(PRD) in 1994. In both terms, she arrived to Congress via the method of
proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
(plurinominal).


Senate

In March 2006 the PRD designated Ibarra as their candidate to the Senate, 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 Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor 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 politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mex ...
, 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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Profile
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Curriculum vitae (Senado de la República)
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eureka.org
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Mexico clears way for abduction arrests
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Las fieras defienden a sus hijos: Rosario Ibarra
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