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PERSONAL LIFE AND POLITICAL CAREER Ibarra, who was born to an Agricultural Engineer father and a violinist mother, is the mother of Jesús Piedra Ibarra an activist who disappeared on April 18 , 1975 in Mexico. She studied in Monterrey , Nuevo León and then met Jesús Ibarra who would become her husband. She became involved with the community, especially when her son Jesús disappeared in Moterrey after being accused of being a member of the communist organization '' Liga Comunista 23 De Septiembre ''. When her cries for resolution were unheard she formed the ''Comité Eureka de Desaparecidos'' ("The Eureka Committee of the Disappeared") with about 100 other women in 1977. A result of her efforts, including several Hunger Strike s 148 out of 557 Political Prisoner s on her lists were liberated during the López Portillo administration (1970-1976). In 1982 she became the first woman in Mexico to run for the presidency with the Workers Revolutionary Party . She became a Federal Deputy for Party Of The Democratic Revolution for the 1985-88 term and in 1986 she was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize . In 1988 she ran for the presidency a second time, this occasion with the Labor Party although she later declined in favor of Cuautémoc Cárdenas . In 1994 she became a federal deputy for the second time. In December 2005 , Carlos Solana Macías was apprehended for the abduction of Rosario's son. EXTERNAL LINKS
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