Relatives of victims of disappearance stage a clandestine grave in front of the National Palace

Relatives of victims of disappearance attended the surroundings of the National Palace where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dispatches and as an act of protest they made a representation of a clandestine grave with photographs of missing persons.

“If you don’t go to the graves, we will bring them to you. These are the graves that show the absence of the State, they are not from the past. It is not a matter of colors or governments, let’s seek justice! We don’t want to bury them, we want to hug them, ”said the group of family members who are looking for a loved one.

The staging was placed in front of one of the doors of the National Palace, where they placed a mound of earth and on it photographs of people who disappeared in Guanajuato, mainly.

“Here we are, women seeking truth, peace, justice, hugs before a clear policy of bullets, before a president who is deaf to the victims, but listens with blind applause. Our life is now based on search for our loved ones among thousands of missing people. Search for them in life, but also in extermination sites where we have witnessed the most cruel and inhuman horror that we ever imagined living (…) The victims are not political spoils, we do not have to have color, we have needs and pain that deserves respect and attention ”, they expressed.

For this reason, they asked for a public hearing with the President to present their needs and demands, and for the president to recognize that the crisis of disappearances that is being experienced in Guanajuato and other states is the responsibility of his government.

They also demanded mechanisms of truth, memory, reparation measures and a non-repetition mechanism; that the safety of mothers and seekers be guaranteed, since many are threatened and life is in danger.

They requested work tables with the three levels of government, as well as a communication channel between the Attorney General’s Office and their counterparts in Guanajuato and other states; a regional coordination plan for the National Search Commission with its counterparts from Zacatecas, Michoacán, Querétaro, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí.

They stated that they also require that the observations of the UN Committee Against Forced Disappearances be followed up.

The National Registry of Missing or Non-located Persons has a base of 94,000 non-located persons in our country.