Efforts Continue to Free Washington State Woman from Mexican Prison Alejandro Dominguez - RentonReporter.com
go to original December 12, 2013

A compilation of video from the Free Nestora Salgado rally in Seattle, along with speeches by her husband and daughter. (Freedom Socialist Party)

Two or three times a year, Nestora Salgado visited her home state of Guerrero, Mexico, to visit relatives still living there and bring clothes to poor children.

The Renton resident and naturalized American citizen was still attached to her small, indigenous town of Olinala.

The region has been a victim of a big wave of homicides, kidnappings and people being tortured. Last year, when she was at the state, her neighbor was found dead after suffering torture.

That was when she and the rest of the town had enough, said her youngest daughter, Grisel Rodriguez, 23.

Since then, Salgado joined the community police and became a leader of that organization. Rodriguez said the police was made of town people and was created under state law.

Still, Salgado made enemies, which is why she has been arrested under charges of kidnapping six people, according to Rodriguez.

“The crime file is completely fabricated. There’s no proof. This is all political,” Rodriguez said.

Salgado was arrested Aug. 21 alongside 13 more people, one week before she was scheduled to return to Washington state.

... To pressure the Mexican government, several organizations protested Tuesday in favor of Human Rights and for Salgado’s release at different Mexican consulates in the United States including Seattle, New York and San Francisco.

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