More than 134,000 disappeared in Mexico, as many in Gaza…the pattern of displacement and disappearance, the battle waged on life itself, is the outcome of a system that would turn us all into a number.
In the face of this, families and collectives build monuments to truth and memory. Their presence defies oblivion, their solidarity defends life.
Despite pretending to tend to the grievances of people seeking loved ones, mothers call the bluff of the current government.
For the occasion of International Day of the Disappeared, the Madres en Resistencia collective is calling on the families of victims of disappearance in Chiapas to march on August 30 at 4 p.m.
Collective complains of simulation in searches for people in Chiapas READ MORE »
After 5 years, the creation of a Citizens’ Council to accompany the prosecutor’s office finally spurs action in the search for 1563 missing persons, a number which has multiplied in the state with the rise of organized crime.
September 26th will mark the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa. Despite the disappointments and disparagement of the AMLO administration, the families of the 43 will continue to seek justice. This piece recounts five phases of their struggle.
Ayotzinapa: A Decade Without Truth or Justice READ MORE »
Communiqué to the Madres Buscadores across Mexico seeking their loved ones.
But we tell you here what we were going to tell you there: Don’t stop seeking. Those absent people are valuable because of the blood they inherited, which is your own. We do not know those whom you are missing, but we know you and the nobility of your struggle. Don’t give up, don’t sell out, don’t give in
SIXTH PART: POSTSCRIPT WHICH SEEKS HOPING TO FIND. READ MORE »
