A baby in Cereso de San Miguel: the misrule evidenced in Puebla
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The State Prosecutor's Office took two weeks to obtain the identity of the body of the minor found in the Cereso garbage: it was unearthed from a CDMX cemetery; there is already responsible, maintains the authority
Text: Sam Nolasco/ SideB
Puebla– The San Miguel Social Reintegration Center (Cereso) in Puebla is a pressure cooker with no release valve.
It has an overpopulation of 102.9 percent, according to information from the federal government. That is to say, more than double the number of inmates that it should contain live there crowded together, and 62 percent have not been sentenced. Organizations that work with the population in prison, such as Reinserta AC, even speak of self-government within the prison.
In a statement that they spread on social networks on January 13, they assure that everything is organized within their perimeter: From prostitution services, with the entry of sex workers; manufacture and consumption of drugs, and even a betting system; in which fighting dogs enter the jail and come out as inert bodies discarded in garbage bags.
A few days ago, the e-consulta portal released videos that show the reality of self-government inside the prison, with people using cell phones or consuming drugs.
The National Diagnosis of Penitentiary Supervision that the National Human Rights Commission released in 2019 (the one for 2020, the most recent, does not include information on the San Miguel prison) rates the prison with 6.6 out of 10 possible points and with a tendency to lowers it Still inside the yellow traffic light, but about to turn red. A rating that has been decreasing in the last ten years.
“When you have these levels of overpopulation you will find many deficiencies in acting. Authority is completely exceeded if there are twice as many people as there should be; and the conditions surely are deplorable.” This is how José Pablo Balandra, coordinator of the Reinserta civil association that works with the prison system, spoke in an interview with LadoB.
A discovery that broke the souls of thousands
In that dump site where fighting dogs parade, whose bites are not enough to save their lives, a baby body was found on the 10th of January 2022. He was found by an inmate who was collecting PET bottles, although it is presumed that he was able to enter at least a couple of days earlier. It was necessary to wait twelve days, almost two weeks, since the news spread to find out the origin of the newborn, and the name by which his parents knew him. And it was mainly the work of the Reinserta organization that allowed the identification.
“As soon as they fired a chief of guards who was involved in issues of trafficking and prostitution of women and girls, obviously the body of a baby that has an incision [in the abdomen] to enter a prison is not [about of] a normal visit. There are protocols for children to enter prisons, obviously in this case they were not followed."
Niño Ayala Peralta, as it appears on the death certificate with folio 210164529 that journalists from the capital disseminated on social networks. He died on January 5 at the age of three months at the Iztacalco Pediatric Hospital (the media and networks also refer to him as Tadeo). The document states as causes of death acute pulmonary hemorrhage, disseminated intravascular coagulation and septic shock.
His parents went to the Puebla State Prosecutor's Office until January 21 to examine the body of their son. They explained to Saskia Niño de Rivera, president of the Reinserta association, that "they were threatened when they saw that their baby's body was no longer there" in the Iztapalapa Civil Pantheon, where they fired him in the grave one day after his death.
The activist's statement was confirmed by the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office. This institution sent its first information sheet who in the early morning of January 21; there he notified that the administrator of the San Nicolás Tolentino cemetery, of the Iztapalapa delegation of Mexico City, had made a complaint of a "probable illegal exhumation and disappearance of the body of a minor."
It was, finally, until January 22 that the Puebla Prosecutor's Office ruled: “the result obtained from the genetic test today is that there is a correspondence between the body of the minor found in the garbage container of the Penitentiary Center from Puebla [..] the minor buried and then exhumed in Mexico City is the same one,” reported the Attorney General of the State of Puebla, Gilberto Higuera Bernal.
The official mentioned that the Prosecutor's Office had knowledge of the body since January 10, and that after conducting interviews with the penitentiary officials they found the person responsible for placing it in jail, but without giving further details.
Days before, the only information available about the terrifying discovery was what the state governor, Miguel Barbosa Huerta, was releasing belatedly, who was unfazed by the fact, and who, on the contrary, threatened to silence the who gave coverage and follow-up to the subject, giving one or another journalism lesson. "They are going to silence, it is going to be clarified," he said in his conference on January 21, without giving more information about the paradigmatic fact.
“This fact exposes the weaknesses of the Mexican State and its institutions to guarantee the right to life and justice. It is a paradigmatic case because it shows us that the macrocriminal networks in Puebla are still intact [with this] we are referring to the criminal operators, but also to the institutional corruption networks and the business world that benefits from it," he commented for this outlet. Juan Martín Pérez García, coordinator of Tejiendo Redes Infancia.
Political interest above the best interests of children
At the same time that some associations reacted to the issue of Cereso's baby in Puebla, other news related to a baby went viral. On January 17, the governor of Nuevo León and his wife showed off photos with a child that was not theirs and even the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) uploaded a letter to the permanent Chamber of Deputies to inform about the investigations they would carry out. , and thus assign responsibilities to the governor Samuel and his wife Mariana. However, the Niño Ayala Peralta did not have that luck.
This case in which two states are involved, two governments according to Juan Martín Pérez, is enough for a federal action, in addition to the exponential addition of “an open secret of the self-government in Cereso de San Miguel [however, there is] a political calculation that they are making on the life of a baby and that political calculation is to take care between the rulers of Morena and the captured National Human Rights Commission.”
In a flurry of political courtesies among the human rights commissions, the CNDH resigned on January 20 as observer and protector of the universal rights of the baby who had been missing for 10 days (since his origin or identity was not known).
The Human Rights Commission of the State of Puebla (CDH) sent a letter (which was uploaded to social networks) demanding that the CNDH “refrain from hearing about the events that occurred in San Miguel”; This, after a first statement, on January 14, where the CNDH urged the Prosecutor's Office to carry out the investigation in accordance with the rights of the minor.
The unfortunate thing, say activists and organizations such as the Ignacio Ellacuría Human Rights Institute, is that the CNDH relinquished its power to attract the investigation file, in which it only has to warn to ensure the right to the truth and to the justice of the subject, since the State is guarantor of protecting him even if he is dead.
This is how Niño Ayala Peralta was denied the right to life and the right to non-discrimination for twelve days. “They almost reduced it to a suitcase for transporting drugs and this comes from the very leak of the prosecution and officials. It is not a suitcase for transporting drugs, it is a victim who is suffering post-mortem discrimination”, concluded the coordinator of Tejiendo Redes Infancia.
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*This work was originally published on LADO B, which is part of the Media Alliance of the Red de Periodistas de a Pie. Here you can consult the original.
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