“If we don’t search for our children, nobody will do it,” a woman whose sons disappeared a decade ago said at an International Day of the Disappeared march.
MEXICO CITY — Mothers of some of 111,000 people who have disappeared in Mexico over decades of violence on Wednesday marked the International Day of the Disappeared with protests and demands that the government do more to locate their loved ones.
Lack of funding and manpower have left police and prosecutors unable to conduct even the most basic searches — leaving it to volunteer groups made up of mothers, who often walk through suspected body dumping grounds with shovels, plunging long steel rods into the earth to detect the odor of cadavers.
Activists say that money and effort could be better spent looking for the missing, or at least their remains.
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