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Hunger Strike at Mexico’s Interior Ministry Wins Meeting With Mexico City Prosecutor

Families pressing the case say prosecutors failed to investigate evidence.

Overview

  • Fernando Vargas, father of Olin Hernando Vargas, entered the Interior Ministry and began a hunger strike after judging a two-hour meeting with the National Search Commissioner insufficient.
  • Following the protest, the Mexico City attorney general, Bertha Alcalde Luján, agreed to meet Vargas in person at 1 p.m. Friday, according to Excélsior.
  • Relatives used a public hearing of the presidential electoral reform commission to deliver a petition and then stayed inside the building to demand action.
  • The National Search Commission offered accompaniment and coordination with the federal prosecutor’s office for recent cases, which some families accepted to strengthen searches.
  • Families allege the city prosecutor’s office ignored or lost evidence, denied the presentation of proofs, and failed to detain identified suspects in disappearances linked to the Ajusco area.