Relatives of missing people demonstrate at the Estela de Luz

In the hope that someone can give them a clue, however minimal, about the whereabouts of their missing loved ones, relatives of these people gathered at the Estela de Luz to place dozens of search cards and share their testimonies.

The second day of the National Humanitarian Search Day was marked by the discovery of human remains in the municipalities of Hermosillo and Huatabampo, reported by the group Searching Mothers of Sonora, which, it stated, were traced by anonymous calls.

In the south of the state, in the town of Huatabampo, countless skeletal remains were found and the number of dead people who were in the place has not yet been determined. The search was carried out on a section of the Mexico 15 international highway, where after excavating a desolate property they found bones, clothing and a skull.

The second discovery occurred in Hermosillo, in an area known as Las Cuevitas, north of the capital. Milagros Armenta, leader of the Jóvenes Buscadores de Sonora collective, explained that the body of a man who had recently been killed was found there.

As part of the day, in Mexico City, at the monument located on Paseo de la Reforma, the families observed a minute of silence for love, peace and unionand among the 50 attendees they cleaned the 41 plaques with names of missing people that were installed since 2014 on the pavement, to which they placed a small bouquet of flowers.

Because they took them alive, we want them alive!, Justice!were the slogans that echoed at the main gate of the Chapultepec Forest, near where the Stela of Light is located.

Six-year-old Joshua Hernández Romero arrived at the scene, looking for his brother Genaro. With the photo on the chest of who is also his best friend, he arrived in the company of his mother, Magaly Romero.

Both shared that Genaro disappeared on September 15, 2023: A truck arrived outside the house, in Santiago Tlacotepec, Toluca, and took him away with beatings and shots..

Magaly stated that her eldest son was 22 years old when he disappeared and so far we don’t know anything about him.

The uncertainty in which we livehe expressed, It is very difficult, day by day it is destroying us. Every day I ask God to take care of him wherever he is (Genaro), and I know that one day I will find him.

Another of the families that attended the Estela de Luz was that of Aracely Vega, mother of Lisandro, who disappeared on March 5, 2021, at the age of 23.

He stated that the search for his son It has been very painful. He stated that particularly for her as a mother It is being dead in life, it is difficult to move forward and follow our path, but without stopping looking for it..

The National Search Day is carried out in at least 15 states in the country; Families pasted search certificates for missing persons on walls, posts, bridges and fences, in addition to embroidering the names of their children and special messages for them, such as I keep looking for you.

In Guerrero, representatives of the María Herrera groups and the Minerva Bello Center announced that due to insecurity in the state they will suspend the exploration activities that would begin yesterday.