to put sneakers on and then ordered them to go into the bathroom and then they took away his sister Rocío
Irene Alvarado Reyes, in a double-cab motor vehicle, previously taking away five cell phones. He indicated
that, because of the latter, they went to the neighbor's house to call their grandmother by phone. He added
that afterwards he did not know anything.52
68.
As for A.A.R., the eleven year old brother of Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes at the time of the
events, who was in the place of the incidents, he stated that, on a Tuesday of the month of December, at 9:00
p.m., he was sleeping in his home along with his mother, brother, sister Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes, as well as
his niece, when army troops dressed in "light green," hooded with helmets and bearing rifles came and
entered his house and put him and his mother alone in the bathroom, while his brother, sister, and niece were
in the bedroom. He indicated that after that they took him out and had him sit down in an armchair and they
told him they would be taking them, but they did not take them, only his sister Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes,
pushing her into a truck. He said that afterwards they went to the neighbor's house to talk to their uncles and
relatives, with whom they went to look for his sister and his cousins, because relatives who came to their
house notified them that they had also been taken.53
69.
Likewise, Marissa Reyes Rueda stated that two days before the disappearance of her
relatives, she saw from her house soldiers of the Mexican Army passing by in a gray-colored pickup truck,
which drew her attention because they were in the back of the vehicle and they were not circulating in the
green pickup trucks belonging to the Mexican Army. She stressed that the gray motor vehicle was a doublecab Chevrolet pickup truck, whose features matched those of the pickup truck in which his relatives
disappeared according to eyewitness accounts.54
2.
Search by next of kin after detention
70.
In view of the above-mentioned incidents, the days after the disappearance of Nitza Paola
Alvarado Espinoza, Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes , and José Ángel Alvarado Herrera, the next of kin started
reporting the incidents and looking for their missing relatives.
71.
As indicated by the petitioners and not challenged by the State, on December 29, 2009, the
day of the disappearance, Jaime Alvarado Herrera and other relatives followed the alleged convoy of troops
taking Nitza, Rocío, and José Ángel Alvarado Herrera until they lost sight of them.55 Afterwards they went to
the commander of the local police in the town of Benito Juárez to report the incidents.56 In addition, on that
same day, the next of kin looked for the alleged victims in the town without managing to locate them.57
72.
On December 30, 2009, the next of kin looked for the alleged victims in Villa Ahumada
Chihuahua, Casas Grandes Chihuahua, and at the 35th Infantry Battalion, where they were told that the
52 Annex I. Case file. Volume XII. Statement of testimony made by R.A.A.R on January 15, 2010 to the CNDH, page 112 of the pdf
file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014); 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.
53Annex I. Case file. Volume XII. Statement of testimony made by A.A.R on January 15, 2010 to the CNDH, page 110 of the pdf
file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014); 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.
54 Annex I. Case file. Volume XV. Statement of testimony made by Marisa Reyes Rueda on February 21, 2010 to the CNDH, page
315 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014).
55
Annex XX. Brief of observations on the merits of the case by the petitioners, received on December 5, 2013.
Annex I. Case file. Volume I. Complaint filed by Jaime Alvarado Herrera with the National Human Rights Commission in
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, January 4, 2010, page 26 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners,
received on November 3, 2014)
56
57 Annex I. Case file. Volume III. Statement of testimony made by Verónica Colomo Reyes to Military Justice on March 9, 2010,
page 35 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014).