Due to citizen exhaustion over the lack of response from state and municipal authorities, downtown Mazatlán has been flooded with posters, stickers, and missing persons’ information sheets, which families have posted in the hope of finding some clue about their whereabouts.
A year after violence and insecurity in Sinaloa increased due to the war between criminal groups, nearly 2,000 people have now been deprived of their liberty in the state, so protests and demonstrations have also increased considerably in each municipality.
In Mazatlán, although there have not been as many incidents as in Culiacán, a large number of people have also been reported missing, which has mobilized children, parents, and siblings to take up the fight to find them, using these posters as a tool.
During a tour of Noroeste this Sunday, it was observed that on streets such as Benito Juárez, 21 de Marzo, Guillermo Nelson, José María Canizales, and Ángel Flores, there are abundant sheets of missing persons’ records posted on lamps, meters, walls, posts, and even on the walls of the City Hall.
Other stickers can be seen posted at the entrance to Aquiles Serdán Street and around the Pino Suárez market, where many people pass by to reach different areas of the city center. These are ideal places to insert the records and hope for someone with news.
Although some have been torn off posts and murals, the posters and sheets on every corner are a reflection of the desperation of so many people to see their relatives again, while they anxiously wait for the authorities to follow up on their files.
Following the protest held by families of the disappeared on Saturday night on the Mazatlán boardwalk, places like the Valentino photo stop and “Monos Bichis” also have missing persons’ cards attached to their monuments, so tourists know that the struggle continues unabated.
Source: noroeste
