San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico), May 10 (EFE).- A hundred Mayan, Tzotzil, Tzeltale, Zoque and Chol indigenous mothers of missing persons marched this Wednesday in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas state , southeast of the country, to demand justice in the face of a crisis of violence, migration and forced disappearances in the region.
The date was significant for the protest since Mother’s Day is celebrated this Wednesday in Mexico, but for this mobilization “On May 10 there is nothing to celebrate”, a phrase they used to stand out in the mobilization.
Starting at 10:00 a.m. local time (4:00 p.m. GMT), the majority of the women took to parks and streets to make visible that in the south-southeast of Mexico, crimes such as the disappearance of people, women, children, and men, are on the rise, to remind their relatives set up clotheslines with the faces of the disappeared.
The complainants agreed that the Mexican State is ignoring the call for justice from thousands of families looking for their relatives.
In addition, they carried out search sheets in various government offices, streets, posts and also handed out flyers and even labeled sweets, with the face of the disappeared, to the citizens who were watching the protest.
Organizations defending the human rights of children such as Melel Xojobal explained that from 2020 to 2022, 476 children and adolescents had not been located and estimated that 7 out of 10 disappeared correspond to a girl or adolescent.
This demonstration was joined by mothers who still have not found justice for the femicides of their daughters and expressed their disappointment towards the administration of justice, as is the case of Araceli Osorio, mother of Lesvy Rivera Osorio, murdered in 2017 on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Mexican capital.
“Let the world know that in Mexico being a woman is a danger, a risk that has nothing to do with a security issue, that has to do with an issue of inequality, discrimination and oppression that does not allow us to exercise our right. principal”, said Araceli Osorio.
“This May 10, access to justice is demanded, that the material and intellectual authors of the crimes that are carried out at the national level be punished,” said Roberto Mendoza, a member of the organization of the National Front for the Struggle for Socialism.
Meanwhile, Roberta Martínez López, told EFE that for 19 years she has been looking for her son without receiving a response from the Prosecutor’s Office, she has sought help from various organizations that have supported her to join the networks of search mothers and said she hopes to find him alive or dead.
This Wednesday, hundreds of mothers of disappeared persons marched this Mother’s Day in Mexico City to ask for an end to the indolence of the country’s authorities in the face of a crisis that does not end and whose victims continue to increase every day.
The women, who gathered at the Monument to the Mother and walked towards the emblematic Angel of Independence, recalled that, although for many people every May 10 is a holiday, for them “it is a struggle and protest” since their daughters and sons disappeared, leaving an irreparable hole in each family.
Edith Olivares, executive director of Amnesty International (AI) Mexico, recalled that this march has been held for 12 years due to the crisis of missing persons and the need for mothers to demand that the Mexican authorities carry out their search and investigation work. to find their children.
