A mother keeps her promise in the midst of dust and pain
Ceci Flores, one of those searching mothers who have become the backbone of justice in this country, has just given news that breaks your soul. After years of fighting against oblivion and the dry land of Sonora, she located skeletal remains that could be those of her son, Marco Antonio Sauceda, who has been missing since 2019.
The discovery was at kilometer 46 of Highway 26 in Hermosillo, a sadly known point where groups have found clandestine graves. In a video posted on her networks, Ceci explained with heartbreaking calm that the remains were scattered over an “immense” area and that a DNA test is now needed to confirm.
“After fighting against everything, against oblivion, against apathy, against the hard land… Let’s go home, son, where you never had to leave”,
he wrote in a message that is a straight dagger to the heart.
The weight of finding ‘only bones’
His testimony does not sugarcoat anything. There’s no happy ending here, just the bittersweet relief of having kept a promise. In his words there is contained anger and immense sadness.
“I don’t believe that any mother deserves to collect only the bones of her child… the least she deserved was to find a complete body, but unfortunately not,”
Ceci expressed, giving voice to a pain that should be unimaginable.
On social networks, the reactions were immediate. Messages of solidarity flooded the publications. The communicator Chumel Torres was one of those who joined:
“Take him home, Doña Cecy. He is resting now.”
What is most shocking is how Ceci highlighted something fundamental: her constant search not only led to this painful discovery, but even helped locate the people responsible for the disappearance. His fight has been integral.
“A mother is never going to stop at anything. Mission accomplished,” she added about this episode that closes a chapter for her, but that opens thousands of questions about a country where disappearances continue to be an open wound.
