Teresa Magueyal
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Teresa Magueyal Ramírez[a] (1958 – 2 May 2023), also known as Doña Tere, was a Mexican human rights activist and madre buscadora. Following the disappearance of her son José Luis, she became a member of the collective Una Promesa por Cumplir, composed of the families of missing people in the state of Guanajuato searching for their relatives.
On 6 April 2020, Magueyal's 31-year-old son, José Luis Apaseo Magueyal, disappeared in Celaya, Guanajuato, while travelling to a shop to purchase food for his family. Following this, Magueyal joined Una Promesa por Cumplir (lit. 'A Promise to be Kept'), a Celaya-based collective comprising 70 families of disappeared people in the Bajío region. The collective conducted its own investigations into disappearances, citing the ineffective response from local authorities.[1][2][3][4] Guanajuato, which contains territory disputed by several cartels, has seen over 3,000 people disappear since 2019.[5]