María Herrera Magdaleno

María Herrera Magdaleno
María Herrera Magdaleno
	Herrera in 2018
Born	Michoacán, Mexico
Other names	Doña Mary
Occupation	Human rights activist
Children	8

María Herrera Magdaleno, also known as Doña Mary, is a Mexican businesswoman and human rights activist. In 2014, she founded a national network of local collectives to educate families on how to investigate disappearances.

Life

Herrera is from Michoacán and is the mother of eight children and two stepchildren.[1] She was born c. 1949. By 2008, she had founded a business after leaving a husband whom she suspected had been unfaithful.[2] Herrera made clothes and sold gold jewelry, at first in her home state of Michoacán.[2] She later expanded to Guadalajara.[2]

In 2008, Herrera's sons, Raúl (19) and Jesús Salvador (24) did a trip with five colleagues near Atoyac de Álvarez.[2] Her sons and their colleagues never returned.[2] Two years later, her sons Gustavo (28) and Luís Armando (24) vanished during a work trip in eastern Veracruz.[2] She suspects her sons disappeared as a result of drug cartel violence.[3]

In 2014, Herrera founded a national network of local collectives to educate families on how to investigate disappearances.[3] In May 2022, Herrera met with Pope Francis.[4] In November 2022, Herrera sued the State of Mexico in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.[3] In April 2023, she was included on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world for her activism.[3]

References

"Pope receives Michoacán woman whose 4 sons are among the missing". Mexico News Daily. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
Lopez, Oscar (11 November 2022). "After 4 Sons Vanish, Their Mother Devotes Her Life to Mexico's Missing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
Nugent, Ciara (13 April 2023). "María Herrera Magdaleno: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023". Time. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
Desidera, Bruno (22 July 2022). "Mexico's desaparecidos. María Herrera Magdaleno, one of the mothers, met with the Pope: "May the perpetrators repent"". SIR - Servizio Informazione Religiosa (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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[1] "Pope receives Michoacán woman whose 4 sons are among the missing". Mexico News Daily. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

[:1-2] Lopez, Oscar (11 November 2022). "After 4 Sons Vanish, Their Mother Devotes Her Life to Mexico's Missing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 April 2023.

[:0-3] Nugent, Ciara (13 April 2023). "María Herrera Magdaleno: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023". Time. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

[4] Desidera, Bruno (22 July 2022). "Mexico's desaparecidos. María Herrera Magdaleno, one of the mothers, met with the Pope: "May the perpetrators repent"". SIR - Servizio Informazione Religiosa (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2023.