Tijuana.-
Lawyer Diana Loza resigned last January as Public Ministry Agent attached to the Disappearance Unit at the Baja California Attorney General’s Office to take a breather; and now her son, Carlos Ontiveros Loza, 21, has been missing in Tijuana since April 22.
This is his story.
After losing track of him, the former Prosecutor of the Disappearance Unit in the Baja California Attorney General’s Office, Diana Loza, began looking for her son on the night of Sunday, April 22 in Tijuana, after Carlos, 22, reported that I would go see some friends.
At around 7:40 p.m., Carlos, a United States national, left his home located on San Francisco Street, in the Colinas neighborhood of California, aboard his car to go to the El Florido subdivision.
After working for a decade in prosecutors until he reached the Disappearance Unit, one of his biggest fears was having to one day experience the pain of a disappearance firsthand.
Outside the offices where she worked until last January, the mother explains that the pain she feels after her son’s disappearance is endless anguish.
However, when asked the route he will take to search for Carlos on his own, he explained, with the seriousness with which he surely cared for the relatives of other victims, that he would leave this Thursday, April 27, from the Persons Unit disappeared, in Colonia 70-76, towards Bulevar 2000, in the eastern part of Tijuana, where her son disappeared.
For a time, Carlos worked in the construction sector in the United States, but due to the long lines to enter that country from Tijuana, he only came sporadically, so he began to dedicate himself to the sale of clothing and used cars.
“He really likes design, he wanted to start his own clothing brand, and when he was studying he sold caps and shirts with his design, he wanted to open a cafe and sell his clothes there,” Loza said.
The vehicle in which Carlos was traveling that night, a white Nissan Áltima with California license plates, was located on April 24 in Colonia Villas del Campo.
After the discovery, the arrest of a man who has not yet been identified was also reported.
Inside the unit, weapons, drugs and cartridges were found.
Diana Loza indicated that the person detained for these events has not wanted to give information about the whereabouts of her only son.
According to the President of the State Movement for the Disappeared, José Fernando Ortigoza, in 2022 there were 4,900 disappeared in Tijuana and so far this year there are at least 2,800 only on this border.
