A narco gang dedicated to abduct young women in Tamaulipas, Mexico, abducted and killed Miriam's daughter; and neither the police or the government helped her out with the case. So, Miriam took the decision to start "hunting down" the gang members, by going undercover as a Social Worker equivalent here in Mexico on the hood where the gang members were supposed to live. So she started to survey the whole neighborhood to locate the relatives of each criminal (parents, siblings, etc.) getting closer to them to gain their trust and get info about their criminal relative.
One by one, she located and gathered enough intel to present charges against them until she imprisoned each one of the murders, (and supposedly she kill one of them).
A couple years after she achieve that, a riot happened on the state prison and several inmates escaped. She went to the police to ask for protection, but it was to late, because a couple weeks later, the reunited gang killed her outside of her house on Mothers Day (May 10th).
And even tho she successfully brought justice to her daughter, she died as a martyr of many feminicides and gender violence in Mexico.
And then the cartels murdered her in front of her home. Families who knew her personally are both inspired and still negotiate with the cartels during kidnappings that still happen in that area. It’s insanity.
KelchGuy97 on December 17th, 2020 at 19:57 UTC »
Long story short:
A narco gang dedicated to abduct young women in Tamaulipas, Mexico, abducted and killed Miriam's daughter; and neither the police or the government helped her out with the case. So, Miriam took the decision to start "hunting down" the gang members, by going undercover as a Social Worker equivalent here in Mexico on the hood where the gang members were supposed to live. So she started to survey the whole neighborhood to locate the relatives of each criminal (parents, siblings, etc.) getting closer to them to gain their trust and get info about their criminal relative.
One by one, she located and gathered enough intel to present charges against them until she imprisoned each one of the murders, (and supposedly she kill one of them).
A couple years after she achieve that, a riot happened on the state prison and several inmates escaped. She went to the police to ask for protection, but it was to late, because a couple weeks later, the reunited gang killed her outside of her house on Mothers Day (May 10th).
And even tho she successfully brought justice to her daughter, she died as a martyr of many feminicides and gender violence in Mexico.
EDIT: If someone's interested, I found this NYT article written by the Journalist Azam Ahmed https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html?smid=tw-share
https://twitter.com/azamsahmed/status/1338152684516483073?s=20
There, he tells the whole story (on english), if you´re just curious or wondering the whole shocking case.
Nugatorysurplusage on December 17th, 2020 at 19:58 UTC »
Fucking cartel got her in the end. She’s a hero, RIP. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Mart%C3%ADnez
theguywhodunit on December 17th, 2020 at 20:16 UTC »
And then the cartels murdered her in front of her home. Families who knew her personally are both inspired and still negotiate with the cartels during kidnappings that still happen in that area. It’s insanity.