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Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, Rosario Ibarra, dies

FILE - Mexico's human rights activist Rosario Ibarra de Piedra shows a photo of her son Jesus who disappeared during Mexico's so called "dirty war", at her home in Mexico City, Nov. 5, 2003. Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico's human rights movement and led her to become the country's first female presidential candidate, died Saturday, April 16, 2022. She was 95. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FILE - Rosario Ibarra de Piedra protests in front of the Secretariat of National Defense, in Mexico City, April 29, 2007, against an anti-terrorist law. Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico's human rights movement and led her to become the country's first female presidential candidate, died Saturday, April 16, 2022. She was 95. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, Rosario Ibarra, dies