Campaign launched to free Jose Ramon Garcia Gomez
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Jose Ramon Garcia Gomez, a member of the Mexican Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), was kidnapped in front of eyewitnesses on Dec. 16 while driving his automobile (Volkswagen license plate No. URW272) in his hometown of Cuauhtla, Morelos. Garcia Gomez was a local PRT candidate in last July's national elections.
Witnesses to the kidnapping identified the assailants as members of the Ministry of the Interior, Mexico's national security police.
Socialist Action contacted internationally renowned human-rights activist Rosario Ibarra, who is the head of the National Front Against Repression. Ibarra has joined other prominent personalities to demand Garcia Gomez's immediate release.
Ibarra reported that a demonstration was held in Cuauhtla shortly after Garcia Gomez's disappearance. Speakers at the rally, which drew several hundred people, included Rosario Ibarra and former presidential candidate 0.apa2 Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.
Rosario Ibarra and the Mexican PRT are organizing an international campaign to demand Garcia Gomez's immediate release. They are urging supporters of human rights around the world to send telegrams and letters demanding Garcia Gomez's immediate release to President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Palacio Nacional, Mexico, D.F., Mexico, and to Minister of the Interior Fernando Gutierrez Barrios, Secretaria de Gobernacion, Bucareli esq. General Prim, Mexico, D.F. Mexico.
Please send copies of all letters and telegrams to the National Front Against Repression, Medellin 366, Col. Roma Sur, 06760 Mexico, D.F. Mexico.
Ibarra, who has secured the release of dozens of disappeared political activists in Mexico, reiterated that only the broadest and swiftest international effort would force the Ministry of the Interior to release Garcia Gomez. Socialist Action calls on all our friends and supporters to join this effort.
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