Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Proceso
Griselda Triana, Widow of Murdered Journalist Javier Valdez and Co-Founder of Riodoce in Culiacan ; Speaking in Madrid, Spain.
Mexico City: Griselda Triana, widow of journalist Javier Valdez, reproached President Enrique Peña Nieto for impunity in the case of the murder of her husband, which occurred on May 15 this year.
Griselda's FB Message :
"Tell me, Enrique Peña Nieto, what do I say to my children?
Why can they do more?
I keep asking myself, what will you do on December 24?
The perpetrators of my husband's murder now have more than seven months of impunity!
You know who is in charge here and it is not you!
Of course, yes, this is what I expected!
Nothing more and nothing less than the First place, Mexico together with Syria!
Who rules?
Who controls this country?
You, President Enrique Pena Nieto ?
Or them? The Criminal corrupt ones ?
Our table will be served and the best of the toasts will be to Javier. I will celebrate, with all the pain that his absence implies, having shared thirty years at his side. We will celebrate the father, the son, the brother, the husband and my companion. We will celebrate our life alongside one of the best and bravest journalists in this country in recent years.
But be clear, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto:
We will never celebrate impunity!
We will never celebrate injustice!
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| Griselda Triana in Madrid Spain |
Griselda Triana, Widow of Murdered Journalist Javier Valdez and Co-Founder of Riodoce in Culiacan ; Speaking in Madrid, Spain.
Mexico City: Griselda Triana, widow of journalist Javier Valdez, reproached President Enrique Peña Nieto for impunity in the case of the murder of her husband, which occurred on May 15 this year.
In a message posted on her Facebook account, Triana said the president has shown that he "can not" solve the case and punish those responsible.
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| RIP: Our Hero Javier Valdez , Shot Dead w 12 Bullets Outside his Office of Riodoce Culiacan, Sinaloa May 15, 2017 |
"Tell me, Enrique Peña Nieto, what do I say to my children?
What can your government not do? What is so incapable? What do you not want?
Why can they do more?
I keep asking myself, what will you do on December 24?
My family, my children like yours, would have liked to celebrate these Holiday dates with their father, Javier Valdez.
But that may never be because there were those who took care to make sure that was not possible on May 15 in this city of Culiacan.
You, in charge of this country, have shown that you can not preside over our country. They rule, that they can rule more than their government and all the institutions. (I believe she is referring to DTO's)
The perpetrators of my husband's murder now have more than seven months of impunity!
You know better than anyone that here, in our country, almost everything is possible except justice.
You know who is in charge here and it is not you!
What is it about the pain and helplessness for the lack of results about who and why they killed my children's father that makes me write this?
Of course, yes, this is what I expected!
I am afraid that those who murdered the father of my children, my husband and my companion, have the same end as those that ended the life of Miroslava Breach and a dozen other journalists so far this 2017! Of course!
Those who did it, those who pulled the triggers of the weapons that ended Javier's life must pay (if they still live) and you must solve this crime ; it is the responsibility of your government.
Shame, We must have for the dishonorable place that our country occupies in crimes against journalists and freedom of expression through a free press.
Nothing more and nothing less than the First place, Mexico together with Syria!
I am ashamed of myself, and I wish that no family member of journalists in this country had to experience the pain that I and my family is going through.
In the absence of results of the crimes, aggressions and disappearances of journalists in this country, who has the answers?
Who rules?
Who controls this country?
You, President Enrique Pena Nieto ?
Or them? The Criminal corrupt ones ?
Our table will be served and the best of the toasts will be to Javier. I will celebrate, with all the pain that his absence implies, having shared thirty years at his side. We will celebrate the father, the son, the brother, the husband and my companion. We will celebrate our life alongside one of the best and bravest journalists in this country in recent years.
But be clear, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto:
We will never celebrate impunity!
We will never celebrate injustice!