Mothers and relatives of the disappeared marched in Mexico City on Friday, when Mothers' Day is celebrated in the country, seeking to reclaim their children and show solidarity with a group that began a hunger strike on Thursday. The protesters walked from the Monument to the Mother to that of the Angel of Independence, in the center of the capital, to demand a search for the missing.
"We are anguished mothers, filled with pain, but we convert it into a force to demand that our children are found," said Carmen Ortiz, mother of Hector Rangel Ortiz.With banners, photographs and t-shirts with pictures of the missing, they marched, shouting
"Where are they? Where are they? Where are our children?"The protest, which began at 10:00 AM, was called by the organization Families United for Our Disappeared in Mexico with the support of the bishop of Saltillo, Raúl Vera, and Father Pedro Pantoja.
The mothers stood across the street from the Attorney General's Office in solidarity with 10 mothers of disappeared persons who have been on a hunger strike since Thursday.
"Mothers, we sympathize with your struggle, we are with you. We will not leave; you are not alone; we are all the same. Your children are our children," said Brenda Rangel from Durango.The march continued and arrived at the Angel, one of the most important monuments of the city. There, one by one, the mothers shared their testimony, while Bishop Vera spoke in their name:
"Until we see a process of justice committed to our causes, as long as those responsible are not judged and our children are not found, we will not believe in their promises," the bishop said.According to official figures, more than 26,000 people disappeared during the government of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), amid a strategy of frontal attack against organized crime. Spanish original