Deputy Demands CNDH Head's Resignation Over Mexico's Disappearance Crisis

Deputy Laura Ballesteros, from the Citizen Movement, demanded that Rosario Piedra Ibarra resign from her position as head of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and notified her of her intention to initiate impeachment proceedings against her for cover-up and negligence in the face of the disappearance crisis in Mexico. The Citizen Movement deputy criticized the CNDH's response to the conclusions of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding Mexico, as the institution led by Piedra Ibarra accused the committee of heeding the 'biased opinion' of organizations like Centro Prodh, which consider the Mexican state's efforts insufficient and did not take into account the actions carried out by the federal government in the last seven years. In the letter sent to the ombudsperson, the legislator accused that the previous response evidences a clear conflict of interest for Piedra Ibarra, as a member of the ruling party MORENA, which prevents her from doing her job, for which reason 'her resignation as head of the National Human Rights Commission is unavoidable' and she demanded the same. The deputy stated that her demand 'is not minor or isolated, it represents the thousands of searching mothers and families today in absolute defenselessness' and is sustained by the serious crisis the country is going through, as the report published by the UN Committee warns that Mexico concentrates 37% of the urgent actions recorded globally in the analyzed period, with a total accumulated of 819 urgent requests, 40 of them registered just between September 2025 and February 2026. She added that 'the people of Mexico and their families deserve to recover their commission and the unrestricted surveillance of their rights; the mothers of the disappeared deserve a guarantor body that helps them find their daughters and sons'.