Mothers and relatives of hundreds of disappeared people in Jalisco gathered at the Niños Heroes monument in Guadalajara on Mother’s Day to demand action from the authorities.
“Can we celebrate this day when our children are not at home?” asked a spokeswoman for the Jalisco Families United for Our Disappeared (Fundej).
“No, we definitely can’t,” responded Maria Leticia Vazquez minutes later. “A mother without a child is not complete.”
Maria’s daughter Erika Cueto went missing seven months ago on the coastal highway in the state of Nayarit. A well-known pole fitness instructor in Puerto Vallarta, she was traveling in her pink Chevrolet Spark to Jalisco’s neighboring state to arrange details about an event that she was organizing there. Her car was found five days later, next to a river in Puerto Vallarta. It had been painted white. Some reports suggested traces of blood were found, along with restraints often used by kidnappers.
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