Nestora Salgado Suspends Hunger Strike on Promise to Transfer Her Colleagues to Guerrero Prison La Jornada
go to original June 5, 2015

Nestora Salgado peeks out of window of Tepepan prison medical tower to thank supporters for demonstrating in favor of her release. (Pablo Ramos)

Nestora Salgado, Community Police commander in Olinalá, Guerrero, agreed to lift the hunger strike she maintained for nearly a month, following the request of her family and the promise of Guerrero Governor Rogelio Ortega that Arturo Campos and Gonzalo Medina, her colleagues from the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC), will be transferred from a prison in the state of Mexico [borders Mexico City] to Guerrero.

Thursday morning, Guerrero Governor Rogelio Ortega Martínez visited Nestora Salgado in the Tepepan Prison Medical Tower, where she has been held under observation since May 29. The Governor arrived at about 10:30 AM accompanied by his wife, Rosa Icela Ojeda Rivera, and one of Nestora's daughters. Sources in the prison report that the visit lasted about two hours. ...

Grisel Rodríguez Salgado, Nestora's youngest daughter - who after two years of not seeing her mother met with her after she arrived at the Tepepan Women's Social Rehabilitation Center (CEFERESO) - said that "she is very feeble, her health is very weak, but she is lively, with a strong spirit after receiving visits (yesterday)." Visitors included Rosa Icela Ojeda Rivera, wife of Governor Ortega, and writers Elena Poniatowska [beloved 83-year old French-born Mexican writer; focuses on social and political issues, especially women and the poor] and Marta Lamas [Mexican anthropologist and feminist and writer].

At the rally that took place outside the Tepepan Prison Medical Tower, a hundred members of various social groups gathered to demand the commander's release. Also mentioned: next week Salgado's family members will be received at the U.S. embassy [Mexico City]. Nestora's daughter emphasized that the precautionary measures granted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) contributed to securing Nestora's transfer from Nayarit [Tepic Prison, where Salgado was kept in isolation for 21 months] to the Tepepan Prison Medical Tower.

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