"May 10th is not a holiday": Mothers of missing persons protest in Mexico City | News Channel 3-12

Mexico City, 10 May (EFE).- Thousands of mothers marched this Saturday, in the framework of Mothers’ Day in Mexico, to demand truth, justice and reparation for the more than 127,000 missing in the country and not to disappear or kill people who are engaged in the search for their loved ones. “We are dead in life, we don’t know food, we don’t know life,” confess Héctor and Teresa Águila, a couple who have been looking for their son for two years,…

Mothers of missing persons in Mexico protested this Saturday in the capital of the country to demand that federal and local authorities look for their relatives, as well as effective results in investigating their cases.

By Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español Mothers of missing persons in Mexico protested this Saturday in the nation's capital to demand that federal and local authorities search for their relatives, as well as effective results in the investigation of their cases. The demonstrators marched about a kilometer along Paseo de la Reforma, one of Mexico City's main avenues, and along the way shouted various slogans such as "Son, listen, your mother is in th…

“Nothing to celebrate,” they said in unison, with their throats broken but their conviction intact. Thus began, from the Monument to the Mother, the 13th March of National Dignity Mothers Looking for their Sons, a mobilization that transforms Mothers’ Day in Mexico into a day of denunciation, memory, struggle—and pain. READ ALSO Sheinbaum confirmed intention to invite Pope Leo XIV to Mexico From early, mothers, fathers, daughters, wives and brot…

Collectives of seeking mothers carried out a symbolic closure of the Senate for denying crisis of missing persons and accused that the federal, state and local governments, far from eradicating violence and organized crime, have allowed, tolerated, encouraged by multiplying criminal businesses and victims. “Perhaps the government does not order disappearances, but laziness,...

Mexico City, Mexico, March 26, 2025. © Reuters / Raquel Cunha A little more than a decade ago, the world was impressed by the fact that the land of the Mexican state swallowed up the 43 student students of Ayotzinapa without greater consequence than the ephemeral fear of the world. At that time, the official number of people missing in Mexico amounted to 30,000, the same estimated number of disappearances perpetrated by the last dictatorship in …