Hundreds of mothers of missing people, relatives, and activists marched in protest through downtown Mexico City on May 10 to mark a sad commemoration of Mother’s Day.
The marchers, angry over what they say is the government’s lack of interest in investigating the disappearances of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people, chanted slogans like “Where are they, our children, where are they?” They carried massive banners that, in some cases, showed nearly 100 photos of missing people.
The Mother’s Day march comes just days after officials managed to find the bodies of three foreigners less than a week after they went missing in Baja California state, while many Mexican mothers have been searching for the sons and daughters for years, and even decades.
The march also comes two days after López Obrador’s administration raised hackles by accusing the press and volunteer searchers who look for the bodies of missing people of “necrophilia.”
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