Telesur offers some much-needed context about Mexico’s community policing laws in their coverage of Nestora’s recent move to a women’s prison in Mexico City.
Telesur: “Detained Mexican Activist Moved to New Facility”
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Free Speech Radio News: “Indigenous police commander Nestora Salgado on hunger strike in Mexican maximum security prison”
FSRN has released a stirring audio story detailing Nestora Salgado’s struggle and her recent decision to go on hunger strike. You can listen to the story and read their coverage of Nestora by clicking here.
La Jornada: “La comandanta Nestora Salgado llega a Tepepan”
“Después de varias horas de viaje, Nestora Salgado García, ex coordinadora de la policía comunitaria de Olinalá, Guerrero, ingresó ayer en la tarde a la Torre Médica del Centro Femenil de Readaptación Social de Tepepan, en la ciudad de México, procedente del penal federal ubicado en Nayarit.”
Solidarity with Nestora in the Dominican Republic
On Saturday, May 23, 2015, NUPORI (Nucleus for a Revolutionary Internationalist Party) was invited to attend the 7th Annual Free America Hip Hop Youth Festival in Santiago with an information table about Nestora Salgado’s unjust imprisonment. The response was very positive. Many people took literature and signed the mailing list to stay informed. Next to the Free Nestora poster is Marcos Adames of NUPORI and CRIR (Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment), one of the organizations that helped initiate the international campaign to free Nestora and all political prisoners in Mexico.
Freedom for Nestora Committee: Nestora Salgado on hunger strike! Help us win her freedom!
Dear Friend,
Nestora Salgado, courageous champion of her indigenous community and a political prisoner in Mexico, is on a hunger strike. She began refusing food on May 5th and intends “to take this to the bitter end,” according to her attorney Leonel Rivero Rodriguez.
The Freedom for Nestora Committee is contacting you because we need your financial support to help win Nestora’s freedom at this critical juncture.
Seattle Globalist coverage: Nestora supporters vie for Sec. of State John Kerry’s attention during Boeing visit
In a recent article covering U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Boeing’s plant in Renton, WA – where Nestora Salgado lived for years – Seattle Globalist described the supporters of Nestora who showed up not only to protest the TPP trade deal, but also to raise awareness of the political prisoner’s troubles. The Globalist’s coverage follows:
…Also outside the Boeing plant were supporters of Nestora Salgado, the Renton woman who has been jailed in Mexico after running a community police force. Her husband, Jose Luis Avila, and her daughter, Grisel Rodriguez, were among the picketers vying for Kerry’s attention.
Avila said that he would like the Secretary of State to take a strong stance urging Mexico to free Salgado, who faces an uncertain wait for trial. Human rights groups and politicians in Washington and Mexico have already backed Salgado’s case.
“We have been knocking on his door for months,” Avila said. “Hopefully he can see that we’re here, and we’re not going away.”
Supporters of Nestora Salgado, a Renton woman imprisoned in Mexico, hope to get Secretary of State John Kerry’s attention. (Photo by Venice Buhain.)
For the full story, click here.
Announcing new endorsers
The Free Nestora Committee is pleased to announce the following endorsers of our cause:
Inlandboatman’s Union, Puget Sound Region
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 79, Seattle
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 52, Puget Sound, Washington
International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Seattle Pensioners’ Club
National M.E.Ch.A., U.S.
Seattle Women’s Rights Commission
We extend our sincerest gratitude for their support.
Seattle U School of Law: “Nestora Salgado protests illegal detention with hunger strike”
The Seattle University School of Law, where supporter of Nestora’s cause Professor Thomas Antkowiak teaches, has issued a news story providing some details into Nestora’s decision to go on hunger strike as well as the international efforts to pressure the Mexican government to release her.
“Cumplió Nestora Salgado cuatro días en huelga de hambre en la cárcel de Tepic”
“Integrantes de la Policía Comunitaria y familiares de Nestora Salgado en conferencia de prensa informaron que el martes pasado la comandante de esa corporación popular comenzó una huelga de hambre para protestar por los malos tratos y la discriminación que ha sufrido en el penal de máxima seguridad El Rincón, ubicado en Tepic, Nayarit.
‘Lo único que Nestora Salgado pedía era que las autoridades le mejoraran su alimentación dentro del penal debido a sus problemas gastrointestinales, cosa que no fue bien vista por los custodios que se encargaban de vigilarla. Por ello, ese mismo momento decidió realizar una huelga de hambre’, indicó Cleotilde Salgado, hermana de la comandante. “
Nestora “on Hunger Strike”
“Salgado has been refused medical attention and due legal process for over two years, and ‘cannot endure anymore,’ she says.”
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