Daughter of Imprisoned Community Police Leader Nestora Salgado, Flees to US Enrique Mendez - La Jornada
go to original October 29, 2014

Saira Rodriguez Salgado (cimacnoticias.com.mx)

Saira Rodriguez Salgado, daughter of Nestora Salgado Garcia, a coordinator of the Community Police of the Regional Community Authorities (CRAC-PC) in Guerrero, announced that she is exiling herself in the United States, where she is also a citizen.

MV Note: Nestora Salgado was arrested on August 21, 2013, in an operation involving 15 military vehicles. She was charged with 48 counts of kidnapping. As a community police officer of the CRAC, she had ordered the arrest of Olinala municipal councilman, Armando Patrón Jiménez on suspicion of committing two murders and participating in cattle raiding. Since then, she has been held in federal prison in Nayarit, far from Guerrero, and essentially in solitary confinement.

From the neighboring country, she "will demand the freedom of my mother. I am going into self-exile because they want to kill me, so I'm not going to stay," she said in a press statement released from the Chamber of Deputies.

She reported that, in recent months, she has received death threats from organized crime. Although the threats have been reported to the Public Prosecutor in Olinalá, Guerrero, they have not been addressed. She said the threatening calls come from a cell number in the Federal District [Mexico City], and the callers claimed they belong to the Warriors United cartel.

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