PBI-Mexico accompanies the March of National Dignity: Mothers Searching for their Sons, Daughters, Truth and Justice

Published by Brent Patterson on May 11, 2025

PBI-Mexico has posted:

“Mexico for #Mother’s Day, searching mothers gather across the country demanding justice and truth for the thousands of disappearances faced by Mexico.

From @PBI_Mexico we accompanied marches and rallies in Mexico City, Morelia and Cuernavaca.”

The Spanish news agency EFE reports: “Thousands of mothers marched this Saturday, as part of Mother’s Day in Mexico, to demand truth, justice and reparation for the more than 127 thousand disappeared in the country. In their demand, they also spoke out for the people who are dedicated to the search for their loved ones not to disappear or be murdered.”

On May 10, 2025, Infobae also reported: “19 searching mothers have been murdered in Mexico in the last six years.”

That article further notes: “According to the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras), 16 searching mothers have been murdered in Mexico from 2019 to date. …In addition to these cases, there are three more victims reported by the organization Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico, in 2014, 2016 and 2017, respectively.”

And Proceso reports: “Searching mothers and children gathered on May 10 at the Angel of Independence to remember that there is nothing to celebrate in a country with more than 125,000 disappeared: ‘Because each one of them is a broken family, they are broken mothers, they are broken children, broken fathers, broken brothers, we are here, but in the heart, the whole family disappears.’”

Al Jazeera has previously reported: “Disappearances began during the Mexican authorities’ so-called dirty war against revolutionary movements of the 1960s to 1980s. More recently, disappearances and homicides have soared amid a nationwide push to crack down on drug cartels and organized criminal groups in the country.”

#DíaDeLasMadres

Additional reading:

PBI-Mexico accompanies Mother’s Day mobilizations in Puebla and Mexico City as the search for disappeared continues (May 13, 2024)

PBI-Mexico accompanies Mother’s Day events as the situation of enforced disappearances continues (May 10, 2023)

PBI-Mexico accompanies Mother’s Day march in Mexico City as the number of disappeared rises to over 100,000 people (May 11, 2022).