Mexico City. Vidulfo Rosales Sierra resigned from the Human Rights Center of the Tlachinollan mountain, and with it leaves the legal representation of the fathers of the 43 normalists of Ayotzinapa, disappeared in 2014.
Even when nearby sources confirmed that it would be added as a collaborator of Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, elected indigenous prime minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Rosales acknowledged that he received the invitation to join the new configuration of the highest court, but said he is valuing it.
In an interview with La Jornada, the litigator said that his resignation is due to a matter of a personal and health nature, and indicated that his decision was communicated directly to the parents last Saturday, after almost 11 years of accompaniment.
“I’m sorry to be speculating, that I am going to court. There is nothing firm, I only hold any respectful dialogue with the minister (Hugo Aguilar) and up to there,” he said when he accepts that he maintains a dialogue with the next president of the SCJN about the possibility of collaborating.
“We have been talking regarding the issue of the rights of indigenous peoples and how the Court would be sitting the new criteria and would be advancing in the recognition of the rights of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, but nothing more, there is nothing right now,” he said.
Regarding the Ayotzinapa case, he said that the defense will continue in a collegiate manner with the Human Rights Centers of the Tlachinollan mountain, Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, and Serapaz. Vidulfo Rosales’s departure takes place a few days after the new meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The lawyer, born in 1976 in the town of Totomixtlahuaca, municipality of Tlacoapa, Guerrero, collaborated with the Tlachinollan Center for 24 years and advised the Community Police. Also, he defended women victims of torture and peasants of the dispossession of their lands, to people victims of disappearance, in addition to having a close relationship with the families of the equal case.
In a letter, dated August 19, he said that he withdraws from the “First line of social struggle with his forehead, with the security of having put a grain of sand in the fight of our peoples”.
However, he said, “from other trenches it will continue to demand that human rights be a reality, that indigenous and Afromexican peoples have a dignified life and not be treated as seconds of second.”
Rosales thanked the director of the Tlachinollan Center, Abel Barrera, the possibility of defending those who have less, “Tlachinollan is the house that housed me and forged as a defender and lawyer.”
He assured that his commitment to indigenous peoples remains “unable. I can not avoid my class duty. I am from an indigenous community located in the rings and charming mountain of Guerrero, my whole life I have walked against the countercurrent by steep paths product of misery and marginalization, so I have the ability to feel the unfair of the injustices committed against anyone and anywhere”.
He thanked his trust and teachings for social and human rights organizations that he accompanied legally in Guerrero, as well as the mothers and fathers of the 43 normalists, whom he accompanied for almost 11 years.
The lawyer recalled “the hard moments” of experience in emblematic cases of human rights violations in Guerrero, including the murder of normalists by the police on the highway of the Sun in Chilpancingo, in 2011; The disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa, in 2014, and the disappearances and subsequent execution of social fighters and Water Defenders, such as Marco Antonio Suástegui Muñoz, spokesman for the council of ejidos and communities opposed to the La Parota dam.
From the Tlachinollan Center, the litigator also headed the defense of cases such as Inés Fernández and Valentina Rosas, indigenous women violated by army elements in 2002; The one of the La Parota dam.
Since 2007, he supported the students of Ayotzinapa, victims of government repression.
For the cases exposed above, Rosales had to leave the country in 2012 for death threats. In 2022, the former governor of Guerrero, Ángel Aguirre Rivero, threatened to legally proceed against him.
The litigator was subjected to surgery due to problems in the digestive system last March 31 and July 29 was the last occasion he attended with the Ayotzinapa families to the fourth meeting with the head of the Federal Executive in the National Palace.
