IPN offers a public apology to the family of Mary Chuy Jaimes

Mexico City. “In a few days Mary Chuy would be 25 years old. She would be an oil engineer and part of the national basketball team (…) but right there where dreams are built was where they were destroyed. In this space where knowledge and mind are forged, a teacher and a colleague disappeared her for being a woman (…) Why did they kill her? Because it was possible: in 2019 they killed 3,500 women; in 2020, 3 thousand 273 and last year 3 thousand 470 (…) They kill us because they do not believe us, no matter how many horror stories we tell, they are only data for the State”.

Yesenia Zamudio speaks, evoking her daughter María de Jesús Jaimes Zamudio, who was studying petroleum engineering at the National Polytechnic Institute in 2016. At the age of 19, the conspiracy of a teacher and a student to abuse her in her department ended with her life in the face of the resistance he put up.

Formal public apology ceremony of the IPN authorities with the presence of relatives and the National Human Rights Commission. A mea culpa from Federico Anaya, the institution’s general attorney, assuming that its gender-based violence prevention programs did not serve to prevent the murder of MaryChuy.

With her voice broken at times, the mother continued narrating the tragic story of her daughter, questioning the fact that women have reached important positions such as the Secretary of the Interior or the Head of Government of Mexico City, “They follow us killing… that’s why today I accept this apology but I accept it with Mary Chuy murdered with her by my side. I am grateful that in these six years, his murderers have issued an arrest warrant. I accept the apology women and young people murdered. I will watch with fear and rage.”

At the time, Anaya recalled that in January 2016 the death by femicide of María de Jesús Jaimes Zamudio was recorded, which shocked society and the university. That tragedy taught us a lot”. A brief summary of what he said, the IPN has carried out to prevent violence against women and the recognition that in the “monitoring of cases, we have found that much remains to be done as reported in July 2021 ”.

Anaya even acknowledged that the responses that the authority gave to the Public Ministry were not adequate, they should have “been clearer and more proactive.” There was ineffective internal monitoring of persons of interest identified in the investigations.”

In turn, the president of the CNDH, Rosario Piedra, asserted that the act of public apology was intended to listen to the voice of the victims, in addition to hearing the recognition of the IPN authorities of their responsibility in these events that led to the femicide of Jaimes Zamudio.