Findings that hurt and cry out for justice
Last Thursday, hope met harsh reality. Collectives of searching mothers, on separate days, found the lifeless bodies of two people in Nicolás Romero and Zumpango. They are not just numbers. They are truncated stories, families still waiting for answers.
In Nicolás Romero, the Lirios Buscadores collective found a male body in a vacant lot. He was wearing a black t-shirt and dark blue jeans, with black hair. The call is direct: if you have a missing relative, go to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in Cuautitlán for DNA tests. Each sample can be the key to closing an open wound.
In Zumpango, another group located bone remains on the dirt roads of San Bartolo Cuautlapan. The day had support from the Prosecutor’s Office, COBUPEM, the Civil Guard of Zumpango and Tecámac, and civil protection of Hueypoxtla. An operation that shows that, when you work as a team, the results come, even if they hurt.
“It is up to the Prosecutor’s Office to carry out the expert and scientific processes necessary to determine the origin and possible identity of said remains, including the corresponding DNA studies,” explained the Zumpango Civil Guard.
There are no villains or movie heroes here. There are mothers who search for their children tooth and nail, authorities who sometimes respond, and a system that still owes a lot. The politics of disappearance is a silent theater where each discovery is an act of resistance. But behind every bone there is a story that deserves to be told. And justice.
