Cristina Erandeni Parades Lachino
Cristina Erandeni Parades Lachino es miembro del Comité de Familiares de Personas Detenidas Desaparecidas del Estado de Michoacán "Alzando Voces" - COFADDEM. La organización trabaja con familiares, amigos y compañeros de personas detenidas y desaparecidas en los estados de Michoacán, Veracruz, Puebla y Guerrero, debido a las actividades de grupos paramilitares y milicias, muchas con el apoyo de agentes de las fuerzas del Estado. COFADDEM pide un alto a las desapariciones, defiende el derecho a la verdad y trata de asegurar que los responsables sean llevados ante la justicia.
Human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in Mexico are subject to intimidation, legal harassment, arbitrary detention, death threats, acts of physical aggression, enforced disappearances and killings as a result of their activities in defence of human rights and the exercise of freedom of expression and journalism.
Disappearances are endemic in Mexico, often happening with collusion from the state. HRDs working on the issue face serious risk, up to and including death. HRDs working in the defence of territory, particularly indigenous territory, face a similar level of risk. They are criminalised, imprisoned, defamed, and often killed. Journalists working on any of these issues, or issues related to the drugs trade and the government's complicity in this, also run the risk of losing their lives.
