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HRD Attack

29 Apr 2021

Maria de Jesús Gomez Vega

Incident date
29 Apr 2021
Date accuracy
Year and Month Correct
Maria de Jesús Gomez Vega
Female
Friends/colleagues/family of persons targeted for repression
Killings
Target: Individual
Location of Incident: Mexico
Other actors

Sources

José de Jesús Robledo Cruz, former president of the ejidal commissariat of the El Bajío ejido in Caborca, Sonora, and his wife, Maria de Jesús Gomez Vega, were found dead in the middle of the desert. Robledo Cruz was president of the commissariat from August 2012 to September 2013, the height of the ejidatarios' resistance against the activities of the Penmont mining company in the region. Alongside the bodies, a card with the names of 13 other anti-mining activists was found. Some of these activists are in prison. Others are missing. We invited Penmont to comment on what happened. The company replied and sent us a press release on the matter.

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