Originally published at The Crux
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With more than 135,000 people reported missing in Mexico, groups of so-called madres buscadoras (Spanish for “searching mothers”) have emerged across the Latin American nation and have become a powerful social movement.
A major march is scheduled to take place on August 30 in Hermosillo, the capital and largest city in Mexico’s northwestern Sonora state, to highlight the crisis.
Ceci Patricia Flores, a 53-year-old mother of six who founded a madres buscadoras group in Sonora state, told Crux Now the march is to “make visible our reality of pain and the failure of the authorities to search, investigate and find our missing relatives.” Flores has been inviting citizens and organizations to participate in the effort.
“We have to raise our voices in the face of so much negligence,” she said.
Flores has been searching for her missing children, as well as those of other mothers, since 2019.
“In 2015, one of my sons went missing. In 2019, two others disappeared. The reality is that the authorities have done little to find them,” she said.
Back then, she did not know that so many families were in the same situation. Today, the organization has 3,000 members, most of them mothers.
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