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Apr 19, 2023 · Miriam Rodríguez spent years tracking down her daughter's killers, one by one, until she was murdered on Mother's Day in 2017. Learn how she became a vigilante activist and a hero in San Fernando, Mexico, and how she was killed by cartel members.
Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez (5 February 1960 – 10 May 2017) was a Mexican human rights activist. She became one of the many "Missing Child Parents", (a class of victims of organized crime, labeled as such by local news media) after her daughter was abducted and killed.
Dec 13, 2020 · Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails.
Dec 18, 2023 · She was a one-woman private investigation squad hunting down her daughter’s kidnappers and killers across Mexico. In three years, she single-handedly tracked down 10 men who were involved in her daughter’s torture and death.
Dec 18, 2020 · Miriam Rodriguez, of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, became an activist and vigilante after her daughter, Karen, 20, was abducted on January 23, 2014, by the Zetas drug cartel.
Sep 24, 2023 · Miriam, normally guarded around strangers, told him her daughter had been kidnapped by the Zeta cartel, becoming one of tens of thousands of disappeared.
Feb 3, 2021 · When her daughter Karen was kidnapped in 2014, Miriam Rodríguez knew exactly who was responsible: the Zetas, a cartel that ran organized crime in her town of San Fernando, Mexico.
