Congressman Adam Smith speaks out against detainment of Nestora
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Hija de Nestora Salgado es testigo de una ejecución y teme por su vida
Palabras de Cleotilde Salgado, hermana de Nestora
Acto en una manifestación de 1000 personas que asistieron a la “El RESCATE DE LA DEMOCRACIA Y EN DEFENSA DE LA SOBERANÍA” al Congreso Popular celebró frente a Televisa
México, DF, a 10 de junio de 2014
Compañeras, compañeros, amigas y amigos:
Mi hermana Nestora Salgado García es una de las convocantes a este acto, pero ella no pudo venir porque sigue presa en el penal de alta seguridad de Nayarit, acusada de ser una peligrosa delincuente.
Mi hermana Nestora, comandante de la policía comunitaria de Olinalá, me ha encargado saludarlos y decirles que ella está con mucho ánimo de seguir luchando por justicia en México. Manda decir Nestora que no nos desanimemos, que la lucha es larga pero que al final del camino vamos a ganar democracia e igualdad para todos los mexicanos.
Mucha gente está pidiendo por Nestora, empezando por México y también por su país adoptivo, Estados Unidos. En el país vecino, apenas los mexicanos que residen allá saben que está presa y apoyan la campaña por su libertad. También se pide por Nestora desde Argentina, Brasil, Costa Rica, República Dominicana y otros países más
El gobierno nos la quiere poner difícil a los comunitarios y a Nestora. A la fecha, hay otros doce policías comunitarios presos, y dos de ellos, Arturo Cano y Gonzalo Molina también fueron desterrados de Guerrero, ellos dos están en Almoloya como si fueran unos vulgares delincuentes cuando que ellos dos son compañeros intachables, honrados y combativos.
En estos días el Gobierno contestó a nuestro clamor por la libertad de todos los presos políticos expidiendo unas treinta órdenes de aprehensión contra otros tantos compañeros policías comunitarios de Olinalá. Cree que con eso va a intimidarnos pero no será así. Nosotros los de Olinalá seguiremos luchando y no sólo por nuestros presos sino también contra las “reformas” estructurales y otras leyes mañosas y que van contra el pueblo.
Compañeras y compañeros:
No nos demos por vencidos. Este año, 2014, es de grandes luchas. Si estamos unidos y organizados, ¡Vamos a triunfar!
-Cleotilde Salgado García
Gunmen kill a woman traveling with them. Members are asking for protection for Nestora Salgado’s daughter and sister
Originally appeared in La Jornada, June 3, 2014. Translated for posting on this website.
Members from the PRD and PT reported that they will request precautionary measures on behalf of the sister and daughter of Nestora Salgado. Yesterday, while traveling to Mexico City to give a press conference, the bus they were traveling on was stopped by armed men who took a passenger who resembled both women, and shot her four times.
Rep. Roberto Lopez (PRD) confirmed that this is not an isolated incident because Nestora Salgado’s family has to make the trip from Olinalá, Guerrero to Mexico City and then take another bus to Tepic, Nayarit, in order to visit her in the maximum security prison in which she is located.
Legislators explained that the Interior Ministry should ensure the safety of Salgado’s family, and they indicated that they will demand her transfer to a prison in Mexico City, in order to ensure that it has appropriate measures for her imprisonment.
On her part, Rep. Loretta Ortiz Ahlf (PT) considered it “incredible” that nine months after her arrest, without a warrant , Nestora Salgado still does not have legal counsel, because authorities from the Northeast Women’s Center in Tepic, have not allowed contact with Emiliano Gomez Mont, who was hired by an NGO and a U.S. university.
”No one was present when the statement was made, a key moment in which the consul (U.S.) and the lawyers should have been,” she said, referring to the fact that Nestora Salgado has U.S. citizenship and yet the U.S government has not aided.
She said that during the visit, the former coordinator of the Community Police from Olinalá confided that she “does not believe in justice within the Mexican government and requests the U.S. governments exercise of diplomatic protection action, because judicial authorities here are not reliable and fears for her life.”
She also added that ”Salgado’s arrest was made without notice to the consul. Not only is consular assistance a right, but so is notification of when liberty is deprived. It doesn’t matter where it is, it needs to be done immediately.”
Translated by Nathaly Fernandez
Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) in Brazil send letter to Mexican President
The following letter was sent to President Neito of Mexico, by the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade/Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL)
Enrique Pena Neito, President of Mexico:
As women in the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade/Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) in Brazil, we want to address the state of Mexico by sending this letter to you as president to demand the immediate release of Nestora Salgado who has been imprisoned in inhumane conditions since August 2013.
Nestora is a leader of Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias/Regional Coordination of Community Authorities (CRAC) in Olinalá, Guerrero.
We stand in uncompromising solidarity with Mexican women who live with the fear caused by a society dominated by drug trafficking. Thousands of women are among the over 20,000 disappeared in Mexico.
We condemn the situation your government maintains over the lives of jobless women as a result of the neoliberal policies in your country which deliver it to imperialist powers. Thousands of women are raped, kidnapped and assassinated without your government taking any action to end this tragic situation. We know there are drug trafficking forces within your very government. These traffickers remain at large and unprosecuted, while those who took up arms to defend their lives and families are imprisoned and persecuted by your government.
We want to point out that Mexico today is the only country in the world where the people have to take up arms to defend themselves. This has occurred because your government, Mr. President, has abandoned people and left them to fend for themselves against the drug gangs. If your government provided security forces, the self-defense forces would not be necessary, and neither would Mexico’s prisons be full of hundreds of political prisoners.
What crime has Nestora Salgado and hundreds of other political prisoners in Mexico committed? It is really a crime to defend your own children from the threats of drug gangs? Is it a crime to defend the lives of our parents and siblings?
We cannot accept this and condemn your government before Brazilian public opinion and that of all of Latin America for imprisoning the poor people who defended themselves only with what they had: hand guns, hunting rifles, axes and wooden sticks.
PSOL women fight for a free world where freedom reigns. We do not accept the fact that Nestora Salgado and thousands of other political prisoners, who have committed no crime and were simply defending their lives and their families, remain jailed in your government’s prisons.
We demand the immediate release of Nestora Salgado and all the political prisoners in Mexico.
Women of Partido de Socialismo e Liberdade, Brazil
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic May Day demonstration for Nestora
Hugo Cedeño, NUPORI
Photos from the May Day demonstration in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
March for Nestora on May Day in New York City
Supporters of jailed leader Nestora Salgado from YoSoy132, Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women marched on May Day in New York City with a huge, colorful banner calling for her freedom.
Freedom for Nestora News Bulletin
The Freedom For Nestora Committee – Seattle has prepared a newsletter for April, highlighting the progress of Nestora’s case such as a Mexican federal court dismissing federal charges of “organized crime” against Nestora, bringing her closer to freedom.
To read about this and other updates on the case, click here.
Rep Adam Smith writes letter to John Kerry about Nestora’s harsh treatment
Representative in Congress, Adam Smith, from Washington’s 9th District has written a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry regarding U.S. citizen Nestora Salgado’s harsh treatment in Mexican prison, and urging attention from the U.S. embassy to monitor the case and ensure Nestora is afforded due process.
You can read the letter here.
Fiesta! A Freedom for Nestora Benefit
Featuring
Live music by La Pasion
Muy sabrosa home-cooked Mexican dinner
Agua fresca, horchata, tres leches cake
Dancing and conversation
$10-25 sliding scale, children $5
Saturday, April 19, 7:00pm
New Freeway Hall
5018 Rainier Ave S, Seattle
Hosted by Libertad para Nestora/Freedom for Nestora Committee and Nestora’s family
For more info: 206-722-2453, FreeNestora.Seattle@gmail.com, http://www.FreeNestora.org
Freedom for Political Prisoners Committee 