Alvarado Reyes are: i) her mother Patricia Reyes Rueda; ii) her daughter A.M.U.A; iii) her two brothers A.A.R.
and R.A.A.R; and iv) her grandparents Manuel Reyes Lira and María de Jesús Rueda Villanueva.39
62.
José Ángel Alvarado Herrera was born on March 23, 1978. At the time of the incidents, he
was 31 years old40 and worked for a spare parts company.41 According to the petitioners, the next of kin of
José Ángel Alvarado Herrera are: i) his wife Obdulia Espinoza Beltrán; ii) his mother Concepción Herrera
Hernández; ii) his father José Ángel Alvarado Fabela; iii) his three children J.A.E, J.A.A.E, and A.E.B; iv) his
brother Jaime Alvarado Herrera; v) his sister-in-law Sandra Luz Rueda Quezada; vi) his four nephews and
nieces J.O.A.R, R.G.A.R, C.N.A.R, and J.E.A.R; vii) his sister Rosa Olivia Alvarado Herrera; viii) his brother-in-law
Felix García García; ix) his four nephews and nieces Karina Paola Alvarado Espinoza, F.A.H, J.G.A., and A.G.A;
x) his brother Manuel Melquíades Alvarado Herrera; xi) his sister-in-law Mayra Daniela Salaís Rodríguez; and
xii) his two nephews D.J.A.S and X.A.S.42
C.
About the facts surrounding the disappearance of Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, José
Ángel Alvarado Herrera, and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes
1.
Detention of Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, José Angel Alvarado Herrera, and Rocío
Irene Alvarado Reyes on December 29, 2009
63.
According to several testimonies, on December 29, 2009, between eight and nine o'clock at
night, José Ángel Alvarado Herrera and Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza were inside a pickup truck parked
outside the home of Adela Beltrán Espinoza, mother of José Angel's wife, which was located on the streets
Belisario Domínguez and Díaz Ordas in the Ejido Benito Juárez in the Municipality of Buenaventura in the
State of Chihuahua, when they were taken out of said motor vehicle by about 10 persons wearing army
uniforms who forced them to climb into an unmarked car, which took off for an unknown destination.
Likewise, according to testimonies, minutes later persons wearing army uniforms broke into the home of
Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes located on the street Primera Norte 1, in Buenaventura in Chihuahua, when she
was with her two brothers who were children, her two-year-old daughter, and her mother; they proceeded to
detain her and forced her to climb into a motor vehicle that sped away from the place. Below the Commission
recapitulates the statements that were taken about both detentions.
64.
Regarding the detention of José Angel Alvarado Herrera and Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza,
the wife of the José Ángel Alvarado Herrera, that is, Obdulia Espinoza Beltrán, who witnessed the incidents,
indicated consistently and in various statements that when she was inside her mother's home, she saw from
the window two unmarked cars arriving, one gray-colored double cab diesel Chevrolet and a white-colored
Hummer from which eight to ten soldiers disembarked wearing sand-colored camouflage uniforms43 and
forced her husband and Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza out of the pickup truck,44 searched the motor vehicle
where both had been sitting, took out the stereo equipment, hit her husband and forced him to climb with
Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza into the double cab Chevrolet, and proceeded to leave. 45
39 Annex XX. Brief by the petitioners sent as part of the admissibility proceedings on December 24, 2012. The State did not
challenge this information.
40 Annex XX. Narrative provided by the petitioners in the brief of observations on the merits of the case received on February
18, 2014. The State did not challenge this information.
41 Annex I. Case file. Volume XVII, Proof of employment from the Vientek Mexico company, January 4, 2010, page 135 of the pdf
file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014).
42 Annex XX. Brief by the petitioners sent as part of the admissibility proceedings on December 24, 2012. The State did not
challenge this information.
43 Annex XX. Brief of the petitioners sent as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings with the I/A Court H.R. on September 7, 2011.
Annex No. 3, CNDH - Recommendation 43/11.
44 Annex XX. Brief of the petitioners sent as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings with the I/A Court H.R. on September 7, 2011.
Annex No. 3, CNDH - Recommendation 43/11.
45 Annex XX. Brief of the petitioners sent as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings with the I/A Court H.R. on September 7, 2011.
Annex No. 3, CNDH - Recommendation 43/11; Annex I. Case file. Volume XXI. Resolution on the lack of jurisdiction of the Agent of the
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