Journalist Soledad Jarquín publishes a book about the lack of impunity following her daughter's murder.

OAXACA, Oaxaca (apro).- Journalist Soledad Jarquín Edgar's book, "Revelations of a State Crime: Impunity, Corruption, and Complicity," is a web of political actors and organized crime, a shadow of the former. It's also an act of justice for her daughter, María del Sol Cruz Jarquín, who was murdered in the early hours of June 2, 2018.

In this book that should not have been written, there is revealing information that presumably involves former municipal presidents of Juchitán, including Gloria Sánchez López, and an operator of the "cuatrote", a former official in the government of Salomón Jara Cruz and current senator of the Republic (Antonino Morales Toledo), and that Judge Armando Félix Toledano did not include, claiming that "the legal time had passed."

This information was part of a Collaboration Notebook 01/OFGEO/2020 of the Investigation File 2552/JU/2018 that had begun to be integrated a year ago, but inexplicably had not been incorporated into the CI, which revealed the clear interference and responsibility of prosecutors Rubén Vasconcelos Méndez and Arturo Peimbert Calvo.

In the chapter "The End of the Nightmare," National Journalism Award winner Soledad Jarquín argues that former prosecutor Vasconcelos Méndez obstructed access to justice to presumably cover up the perpetrators and masterminds, whom he was obligated to investigate.

Among the testimonies that were known of the events, they point to those who presumably would have participated both in the conspiracy to end the life of Pamela Terán and achieve the victory of the candidate related to them (Emilio Montero Pérez), as well as to three former municipal presidents, two men and a woman, who supposedly would have received 40 million pesos to ensure the victory, from the hands of another former municipal president who was not from Juchitán, but from San Blas Atempa, who is accused of committing a federal crime, such as huachicol.

This is the plot and the political figures, masterminds, and the criminal group, the perpetrators, that prosecutors Rubén Vasconcelos Méndez and Arturo Peimbert Calvo refused to unravel, the feminist activist summarizes in the book.

This book has also been a haven of peace for activist Sol Jarquín, to whom it dedicated this thought:

“Dear Sol, my heart is at peace. You are chasing them. Let my hands hold you and let you walk with me everywhere, let my voice be yours, let it scream, let it demand justice. Let me be with you this way and live this way, without taking over your life and without ceasing to live my own. I hold your photograph, I wear it, I lend you my body so you can go out into the street and scream. So now they know, it's not me, it's you who is chasing them.”

Sol Jarquín insists that Revelations of a State Crime, the book she recently presented at the Andrés Henestrosa Library, “should never have been written, but it was written because it is personally understood as an act of justice and because silence, as I have already said, is my main enemy, and I can overcome that enemy.”

“I want to tell you that writing this book is an act of justice that the State denied us. In humanly civilized countries, justice knocks on your door. In Mexico, things are painfully different. Seven years later, justice is an idea that barely becomes tangible or almost never materializes.”

“In Mexico, victims don't access justice; they confront it. This imaginary, intangible, phantasmatic, and even aspirational justice represents, in the vast majority of cases, a struggle against a system based on power, whether political, economic, or factual—powers that refuse to succumb to anything and do everything to achieve their ends.”

"Revelations of a State Crime, the book that should never have been written, but was written because it is personally understood as an act of justice, and because silence, as I have already said, is my greatest enemy; I can overcome that enemy," he added.

“That book, which arose from the need caused by the loss of someone as dear as María del Sol, began to take shape from the very beginning, because I was sure she needed someone to explain what had happened. Then it became a necessity to continue maintaining a dialogue—actually, a monologue—as a way to appease my own grief.”

“During those difficult first days, more than ever, I felt the need to know, in detail, what had happened that early morning of June 2nd at 2:27 a.m. I don't know if it was my mother's heart or my journalistic craft. I just wanted to explain to María del Sol an act I considered necessary so that she could be at peace, both for her and for myself.”

She confided that "the remote idea of ​​writing the book was born during a workshop we, the mothers of femicide victims, took at the peace circles invited by Consorcio Oaxaca. When the workshop leader explained to us that writing, painting, and embroidering—doing something—allows for dialogue and how healing it is to express our pain through an activity. That's when I realized I was doing just that, without knowing it. A while later, I told Yésica I was writing, and just like that, she blurted out, 'Well, write a book.'"

I returned home and began working on the idea, the form, how it would be done, what I didn't have and what was added over time. I'm sure the book was written and rewritten several times. First, because it had initially been written with a lot of emotion, both good and not so good. Then I would let it rest for weeks, and when I reread it, I realized the sentences were poorly ordered and that probably only I understood them. "That's where what we in journalism call contexts also appeared, those that place the reader in the scene and the physical, geographical, social, and political conditions. That's how I was able to see various actors and their circumstances. And there was also some luck when they placed an uninvestigated truth in our hands, which shed a lot of light on our understanding."

It's a journalistic exercise, but it's also the exercise of a mother who wants to recount the sum of events, obstacles, arbitrary acts, and acts of corruption that generated a fetid mountain of impunity that transformed a judicial process that only sought justice.

In Revelations of a State Crime: Impunity, Corruption, and Complicity, you will find an alleged network of political actors and organized crime, a shadow of the former; both seemingly working in parallel, from different times... All these characters have one thing in common: the ambition for power derived from a gold mine, the wind, and other projects that have been added over time; characters who determine everything, are the law, and are above the law."

That was the main reason why the supposedly "authorities" failed to do their job, failed to fulfill their responsibilities, and became part of the impunity, corruption, and complicity, that fabric they thought was invisible and that suddenly took shape and color.

This is just the case of María del Sol Cruz Jarquín, but this story is repeated throughout the country; unfortunately, it's common. The citizens' challenge is to prevent this from happening, to not grow accustomed to impunity, to allow dignified anger, reason, justice, and with it, peace, to prevail.