New findings in Cubiri de Portelas
The search leader Ceci Flores, founder of the Mothers Searchers of Sonora collective, returned to excavate a grave in the municipality of Cubiri de Portelas, Sinaloa, after she assured that the State Prosecutor’s Office did not carry out its work correctly. In a video broadcast on social networks, the activist showed that, although the authorities had already processed the place, skeletal remains continued to appear.
Flores reported that, along with other searching mothers, she located parts of at least two more people. In the images you can see a searcher with gloves and a shovel removing soil while extracting new fragments in broad daylight.
Omission and revictimization
The activist, who since 2015 has been searching for her son Alejandro Guadalupe Islas Flores, denounced that the work that would correspond to the authorities should be done by the families:
“for the love of those we miss at home.”
He added that the total amount of remains is still unknown until the exhumation is completed.
On July 6, Ceci Flores had already accused revictimization by personnel of the Sinaloa Search Commission, after the initial discovery at that same site. He pointed out that they minimized their work by stating, without support, that the remains found belonged to an animal.
This new discovery reopens the demand of search mothers for an exhaustive and transparent investigation, while the number of missing people in Mexico continues to increase.
