Visibilizing the Disappeared: Rosario Ibarra and Politicized Mothering During Mexico's Dirty War

Download or read book Visibilizing the Disappeared: Rosario Ibarra and Politicized Mothering During Mexico's Dirty War written by Carolina Santillan Serrano and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of the Dirty War in Mexico, which began after the violent government suppression of the 1968 student movement and extended into the 1980s, Mexico experienced an increase in state-sponsored terrorism that led to thousands of students, professors, teachers, civilians, guerrilleros, and activists being detained, disappeared, or murdered by government forces. On April 18, 1975, a nineteen year-old medical student and member of the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre, Jesus Piedra Ibarra, disappeared near his home in Monterrey, Mexico. His mother, Rosario Ibarra, began a frantic search for him that led her to Mexico City where she met with over a hundred families who were also searching for their family members who had also been forcefully disappeared by the government's security agency. Between 1975 and 1977, these families began a movement to find answers, hold the government accountable for human rights abuses, and challenge the repressive policies of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Led by Ibarra, this group of mothers came to be known as Comite ℗ŁEureka! Through an intersectional approach to history, this thesis examines and historicizes the politicization and activism of Rosario Ibarra and the mothers of Comite ℗ŁEureka! By centering their strategies and agency as largely middle-class women and mothers, they were able to bring national and international attention to the human rights abuses of the PRI government during the Dirty War in Mexico.