93.
In that same statement, Agent Sotomayor indicated that, at 10:00 p.m. that same day,
December 30, 2009, three persons dressed in civilian clothes appeared at the facilities of the agency of the
Public Federal Ministry, bearing AR15 arms, who did not identify themselves, except one of them, who said he
was Commander Meza and who requested Agent Sotomayor to lend him the detained persons José Ángel
Alvarado Herrera, Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes whom he held in his
custody, to which he replied that he did not have any detained persons or persons remanded into his custody
as a result of which he could not help them, in response to which he asked if he could talk to the military
garrison to ask the soldiers when they were going to remand them, indicating that he could do nothing until
they were remanded into his custody.84
94.
Also matching what had been stated by Damaris Baglietto Hernández and Ramón Iván
Sotomayor Siller, Argene Blázquez Morales indicated that she had received a phone call from someone who
identified himself as a Federal Police Force Commander, who told her that he was aware of the detention of
three persons by the Federal Police Force and that the detained persons were connected with the
disappearance of agents of his institution, and she indicated that he should go to the Public Ministry and
speak to the Deputy Delegate of said area. He specified that he had called Damaris Bagliette by cell phone or
radio and he told her that she was on vacation, and that is why did not want to bother her with something so
trivial, which was why he contacted the Public Ministry of Nuevo Casas Grandes and told her the content of
the call, but he did not indicate how they were supposed to act.85
95.
From the time of disappearance up to the day of that the present report was adopted, the
whereabouts of Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes, and José Ángel Alvarado Herrera
are unknown. The only information in the case file is connected with the alleged phone call made by Nitza
Paola Alvarado Espinoza on February 3, 2010.
96.
Regarding this, on February 12, 2010, María de Jesús Alvarado stated that “[...] on the third of
February of the present year, the house of Mrs. Ramona, who lives in Benito Juárez, received a phone call, the
call was made at five thirty in the afternoon to phone number 636-69-80-101 which was received and
answered by Juana Bustamante, who when she answered heard the voice a female person who identified
herself as Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, my sister told her to get her out of there, I don't know where I am,
Juanita also remarked that she heard another voice, that of a male persons with a Chilango tone who said:
"Dammit the bitch has already spoken" and at that moment they hung up.”86
97.
As will be described in the following section, in the framework of the internal investigations,
there is no information indicating that the authorities carried out a diligent and timely investigation on this
call, and therefore the call did not shed any light on the whereabouts of neither Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza
nor José Ángel Alvarado Herrera and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes.
84 Annex I. Case file. Volume III. Statement made by Ramón Iván Sotomayor Siller to the Official of the Public Ministry for the
Military on March 12, 2010, page 179 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. See also Annex I. Case file. Volume IV. Statement made by José Eduardo Rentería
Martínez to the Major of Military Justice on March 19, 2010, page 254 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by
the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014. In his statement of testimony, José Eduardo Rentería Martínez indicated that, on
December 30, 2009, a gray or silver-colored Chevy compact car arrived from which three persons carrying long arms climbed out and
when they reached the reception point of the security guard, they said they belonged to the Federal Police Force, they did not show any
identification and were not in uniform, the one who entered introduced himself to attorney Soto Mayor Siller as Commander Meza.
85 Annex I. Case file. Volume IX. Statement made by Argene Blázquez Morales to the Major of Military Justice of the Fourth
Military Region on March 30, 2011, page 177 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received
on November 3, 2014).
86 Annex XX. IACHR document requesting provisional measures. Annex 6 - Case file 124/2009, complaint filed by María de
Jesús Alvarado on February 12, 2010 with the PGJE.