PBI-Mexico accompanies Mother’s Day mobilizations in Puebla and Mexico City as the search for disappeared continues
PBI-Mexico has posted:
“Today on #Mother’s Day in Mexico we accompany the mothers from Puebla and CDMX [Mexico City] who are demanding justice for the disappearance of their loved ones.
From PBI we recognize the great work of the search collectives in the defence and promotion of #HumanRights.”
Angulo 7 reports:
“For the searching mothers in Puebla, May 10 is not a day of celebration, but of protest against the disappearance of their relatives and because state institutions have failed them, especially the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office that does not give progress to “long-standing” cases.
Within the framework of Mother’s Day, the collective Voice of the Disappeared, first attended a mass in the cathedral, where Archbishop Víctor Sánchez Espinosa offered the religious ceremony to show solidarity with them, where he said that for dozens of women this date is not a celebration.
There, they took the opportunity to launch the slogan “May 10 is not a party” to which the leader of the Catholic flock in the state, in his speech gave them words of encouragement, as well as urged them not to give up in the search for relatives.
Subsequently, they moved to the city’s main square, for a solidarity embroidery and a clothesline, where María Luisa Núñez Barojas, founder of the collective, recalled that in 2018 she began with these protests, but now 6 years later, she is no longer alone, because “many women accompany her”.”
El Pais also reports:
“Mexico is a country of sad mothers. Thousands of relatives of the disappeared, most of them women, have come out to demonstrate on May 10, Mother’s Day, to make visible the crisis of disappearances that the country is experiencing. Collectives from all states have gathered in Mexico City in what they have called the “National March of Searching Mothers.” It is estimated that more than 100,000 people have disappeared in Mexico, most of them in the last 18 years. The day has been joined by rallies in Jalisco, Puebla, Colima, Zacatecas, Veracruz and Oaxaca, among other places.
Disappearances in the country have increased as violence intensified with the notorious “war on drugs” during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012). “It’s one of the manifestations of the violence that was generated in Mexico after the security strategy was militarized,” says Humberto Guerrero, human rights coordinator at Fundar. But who disappears the disappeared? That is one of the big questions surrounding the phenomenon. “Sometimes it’s organized crime, other times it’s the state. Sometimes one and the other are the same,” Guerrero responds.”
The Associated Press adds:
“Hundreds of mothers of missing people, relatives and activists marched in protest through downtown Mexico City Friday to mark a sad commemoration of Mother’s Day.
The marchers, angry over what they say is the government’s lack of interest in investigating the disappearances of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people, chanted slogans like “Where are they, our children, where are they?” They carried massive banners that, in some cases, showed nearly 100 photos of missing people.”
Edith Olivares of Amnesty International Mexico further highlights: “More than 90% of those searching for disappeared persons are women, mothers, sisters, and daughters. They are facing disappearance, murder, attacks, and threats, and they are also facing state violence. Unfortunately, they are coming on these marches, as they have been doing for several years, to demand to be heard and listened to by the authorities.”
We continue to follow this.
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