Collectives of searchers should not exist. They exist because their loved ones were ripped away from them and they got no response from a complicit and absent State. They exist because there are 120,000 families devastated by the disappearance of one or more of their members. Because the federal, state and municipal governments in office only turn to look at them when a tragedy strikes. Today it was Teuchitlán, yesterday San Fernando and tomorrow who knows.

Eleven thousand 450 brigadistas from different countries have participated during the last 30 years in the Civil Observation Brigades (Bricos) to document human rights violations in Chiapas, organized by the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba).

YOU TOO can apply to become a human rights observer today! https://schoolsforchiapas.org/become-a-human-rights-observer/