Breathe
By María Elena Ríos
Judge MARÍA TERESA QUEVEDO SÁNCHEZ , responsible for freeing the femicides in three relevant cases in Oaxaca, was given my case and is now illegally benefiting Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal, denying me my right to prompt and expeditious justice, my right to reparation for damages and violating my integrity, my life and that of my family and lawyers.
In previous weeks, with great faith, I made public knowledge that after four years, countless acts of corruption, threats to my family, my lawyer and me, including a recent attempt on my life on September 15, finally in the month of August the Intermediate Hearing of my trial for Attempted Feminicide where the intellectual author is Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal, his son Juan Antonio Vera Hernández, currently a fugitive from justice, and three more material aggressors, Rubén Loaeza Charrez, Rubicel Hernández Ríos and Ponciano Hernández Yescas (dead).
My file was supposed to be transferred from the control judge who was recently in charge, Judge Elizabeth Contreras Hernandez, to an appellate court but unfortunately my process was now transferred to a Unitary Court.
But what is a Court of Appeals and a Unitary Court?
The Court of Appeals is composed of three judges and the Unitary Court of Appeals is composed of one judge; the Court of Appeals is assigned the most complex cases, which requires the joint work of three judges, while the Unitary Court is assigned cases of lesser relevance.
You have been witnesses of all that I have had to go through in this journey, on this road to seek justice in my country Mexico, we do not need to be lawyers or experts in criminal matters to realize all the abuse and corruption that exists in the Judiciary in the state of Oaxaca alone, which is headed by the President of the Court of Justice Eduardo Pinacho Sanchez . We know that my process is extremely complex due to all the asymmetry of power that exists between Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal and his links to the political elite in the state (many of them are still in office in the current administration), including federal crimes such as money laundering and huachicol declared publicly by the Financial Intelligence Unit in 2020.
This Saturday, September 23rd at 12:20 hrs, I received an email in which the Judge of the Unitary Court MARÍA TERESA QUEVEDO SÁNCHEZ recognizes that although there is no impediment to date the debate hearing, she decides not to do so and openly benefits Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal, by highlighting that she considers that the recent injunctions of the feminicide should be resolved first:
The first: Amparo 749/2023 against the injunction.
The second: Amparo 373/2023 against the precautionary measures.
What is a precautionary measure and what is an interim injunction?
The precautionary measure request seeks that Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal be granted an arraigo domiciliario. This change of precautionary measure has been requested as many times as it has been denied, since it has been reiterated to the feminicide that he is entitled to JUSTIFIED PRISON, for my safety and to avoid further violating this process, that is to say; it is necessary and vital that he continues to carry out this legal process in prison. One of those occasions was when, under the wake of corruption, they agreed with the Control Judge Teodulo Pacheco Pacheco a shameless release of the feminicide.
The injunctive relief seeks the return to Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal of the few assets that my lawyer Diana Cristal Gonzalez Obregón and the Oaxaca State Prosecutor's Office managed to seize with a lot of hard work, despite a number of obstacles and corruption. I clarify that these assets are not mine, they are simply seized to ensure reparation of damages and are under the custody of the Oaxaca State Prosecutor's Office.
What this judge named MARÍA TERESA QUEVEDO SÁNCHEZ is doing is very SERIOUS, even more serious than what Judge Teodulo Pacheco Pacheco tried to do at the time, since her resolution clearly puts Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal in an undeserved, illegal and undue advantage in a cynical manner, without scruples and of course with the support of corruption , since a "house arrest" facilitates and makes available a future escape, that they remove the seizure of my assets so that I do not have the right to secure reparation for the damage and of course leave my process in a mess so that I do not have justice.
The obligation of Judge MARIA TERESA QUEVEDO SANCHEZ was that, upon receiving the order for the oral trial, which is where all my evidence and witnesses are allowed, she had to give me a date so that it could be carried out, but she decides not to do so. Although she recognizes that Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal's injunctions do not have suspensive effects, that is to say, redundantly, that they suspend the oral trial, this judge simply illegally DOES NOT WANT TO MOVE FORWARD.
This judge has a terrible record of corruption because she has allowed the release of femicides, in the following cases of my colleagues:
● The femicide of Joselyn Alejandra Vargas Ortíz, a young university student who disappeared in August 2018 and was found lifeless in December 2020 in Huajuapan de León Oaxaca but recently released her femicide.
● Disappearance of Zaira Leticia Morales Loyola, disappeared on October 23, 2020 in Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. There were people detained, with the full burden of proof on their responsibility but MARÍA TERESA QUEVEDO SÁNCHEZ released them.
● This same judge at the beginning of 2023 determined to change the crime for which the former mayor of Asunción Nochixtlán Oaxaca, friend of the current governor of Oaxaca Salomón Jara Cruz, is being tried to "obstruction of justice", when the trial is for the forced disappearance of activist Claudia Uruchurtu Cruz in March 2021.
What is the next scenario?
The escape of Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal, the return of his assets and leaving me without justice.
I know that I have constantly appealed to society to publicly denounce all the acts that pretend that I decline in this search for justice. Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal forced me to change my life; every day I struggle to survive with faith and hope that someday I can have a little peace and live what I have left in the most humane way possible, if all this time I have resorted to society is because the judiciary in Oaxaca is plagued by corruption and invaded by a cancer, injustice.
Today, the will to live that I have, is thanks to you, because without your support I would surely not be alive to tell this terrible reality that we women live in Mexico.
María Elena Ríos Ortíz
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