PBI-Mexico accompanies march in solidarity with the disappeared during the Mendez Arceo National Human Rights Award in Cuernavaca

Published by Brent Patterson on May 21, 2025

The Cerezo Committee has posted: “30th Mendez Arceo National Human Rights Award in Cuernavaca, Morelos”

El Sol de Cuernavaca reports: “Mothers of the Disappeared Receive Sergio Méndez Arceo Award for Their Struggle in Mexico.”

 “Veronica Rosas, mother of Diego Maximiliano, who disappeared in the State of Mexico, received the award in the individual category, and the collective Returning Home Morelos received it in the group category. …The collective was founded by Angelica Rodriguez and Edith Hernandez in 2012, following the disappearance of their daughter Viridiana and her brother Israel, respectively.”

The article also notes: “The mothers and other relatives of missing persons made a short march from the Cathedral, through the Plaza de Armas, to the memorial to the victims outside the Government Palace, and back to the Cathedral.”

And it highlights:

“During the speech, read by Francisco Cerezo, member of the Comité Cerezo, the serious situation of forced disappearance in Mexico was exposed. In addition, the issue of migration was addressed, especially with the tensions with the United States, given the return of Donald Trump to the White House.

“Enforced disappearance and disappearance committed by private individuals, as well as the phenomenon of migration in our country, continue. It is not by denying the problem of these phenomena that the Mexican State will solve and guarantee justice. On the contrary, only by accepting this situation, it is possible to take the necessary and urgent measures to generate processes of justice, truth, memory and comprehensive reparation, which really bring relief to the suffering of all the people in our country,” he said.

He added: “More than 13,000 disappeared and more than 75,000 unidentified bodies, after a six-year term where the word ‘change’ was recurrent, denies in fact this change. We cannot say that we are the same, but we are not better off, and that is what thousands of mothers, fathers and family members searching for their loved ones point out in every step they take to find them.”

The full article can be read at Madres de desaparecidos reciben Premio Sergio Méndez Arceo por su lucha en México (El Sol de Cuernavaca, 17 de mayo de 2025).