Moms of the Missing Take to the Streets for Mother’s Day March Staff - MND
go to original May 12, 2023

Two protesters caught in a quiet moment at a Mother's Day protest in Zacatecas. (Adolfo Vladimir/Cuartoscuro)

Mother’s Day wasn’t a day of celebration for Mexico’s madres buscadoras, or searching mothers, who look for the disappeared.

Mothers of missing children and other family members took to the streets across Mexico this week to protest against authorities that have failed to locate their loved ones.

Durango, Puebla, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Veracruz and Oaxaca were among the states where protests were held.

In Mexico City, madres buscadoras who have spent countless days searching for their missing children marched from the Monument to the Mother near the capital’s historic center to the Angel of Independence statue on Reforma Avenue.

“There’s nothing to celebrate; we’re dead in life,” said Rosa Icela Velasco Acosta, whose son disappeared in Mexico City in 2021.

“We ask the authorities, we ask President López Obrador to return our children to us … Justice must be served,” she told the newspaper El Universal.

One of the chants shouted by mothers in Mexico City was, “They were taken alive, we want them back alive,” a message heard countless times at protests against the disappearance of 43 young male students in Iguala, Guerrero, in 2014.

The number of people officially registered as missing in Mexico has grown by more than 4,000 this year and now stands at over 112,000 people. The vast majority of that number disappeared in the past two decades.

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