After the disappearance of her two sons, Cecilia Flores founded Madres Buscadoras de Sonora.
Cecilia Flores, president and founder of the collective Madres Buscadoras de Sonora.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía (Jocotepec).- Despite the fact that the municipality of Jocotepec has registered more than 50 missing persons between January 2014 and December 2019, so far no mother has joined the search for her children.
Cecilia Patricia Flores Armenta, president and founder of the Colectivo, «Madres Buscadoras de Sonora» who support the searches in Jalisco, invited the mothers of the municipality to join the movement.
According to data obtained via transparency, under folio 00097120 before the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, there are at least 58 current records of people from Jocotepec whose whereabouts are unknown. The complaints were made from January 2014 to December 2019. However, Cecilia said that there is no mother from the municipality who has requested help from the collective.
Cecilia also reported that in the state alone, until 2022, there are over 16 thousand people missing or unaccounted for.
Flores Armenta commented that Madres Buscadoras de Sonora was born as a result of the tragic disappearance of her sons Marco Antonio Sauceda and Alejandro Islas Flores, a little more than three years ago, and to the lack of support from the authorities.
So, in desperation, but driven by the faith of finding her sons, she founded the collective that extends to a great majority of the country and has found more than 900 missing persons and another 800 alive.
Cecilia Flores urged all those mothers, who are going through a terrible situation such as having a missing child, not to be afraid, «our children have the right to be looked for,» she insisted.
She added that the situation in Jalisco is very complicated, since most of the bodies found by the collective have been found in farms and «mutilated,» explained Flores.
In the last operation of the collective in Jalisco which took place last February, 281 black bags with remains were found–apparently 81 bodies, as well as five more farms, without counting yet how many bodies there were.
Finally, Cecilia urged the population to become aware of the situation and urge the authorities to do their job properly, because she does not want any other mother to know «what it is like to be dead while alive.»
Translated by Sydney Metrick
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