“Those of us who defended ourselves are imprisoned, those who did not, [are] dead or disappeared,” Mireles Says in New Audio

Dr. Mireles

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

The autodefensa leader, José Manuel Mireles, recorded a new audio in which he demands to the government justice for defending his people “those who did not, those who did not defend themselves, are appearing in clandestine graves that are being discovered throughout the Mexican terrain, for having waited for the institutions instituted to provide security and protection, to do their job,” he said.

Mexico City, Mexico. April 28, 2017– The founder of the autodefensas in Michoacán, José Manuel Mireles Valverde, who is imprisoned in CEFERESO #4 in Nayarit, broadcasted an audio in which he demands justice from the Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB), National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).

Likewise, Dr. Mireles questions these government bodies, as well as “the other rich people” to explain their definition of justice, since Mireles, like other autodefensas, “for having used our constitutional right to self-defense.”

“We humbly ask them to explain to us, as a people that we are, what is their true definition of justice?  Because those of us who defend ourselves from being murdered are imprisoned for defending ourselves, and those of us who waited for justice to be administered are dead and buried,” he says.

The leader explained that “those who did not, those who did not defend themselves, are appearing in clandestine graves that are being discovered throughout the Mexican terrain, for having waited for the institutions instituted to provide security and protection, to do their job, to do their justice, what they never did,” the leader explained.

Mireles demanded justice for all those who, like him, sought justice by their own means, and not only for “the murderers of the nation.”

“Justice only applies for the benefit of the political class and the rulers, the law only applies to the most fucked people in Mexico, which are us, the majority, and that we are all innocent of which we are accused of, with some exceptions.”

“All of us who defended ourselves are imprisoned, but the misfortune was greater for those who did not defend themselves because they are all dead and buried or disappeared, and justice has not yet arrived for anyone,” Mireles said.

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