Members of the Memory and Justice collective of Quintana Roo carried out activities in the city of Xalapa to distribute missing persons posters for young people reported missing in that state. According to lines of investigation, some of them may be in Veracruz.
The mothers searching for their missing children, from Cancún and Chetumal, traveled to municipalities such as Veracruz, Catemaco, and, on May 29, Xalapa, to post missing person posters. They also visited hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and forensic services seeking information that could help locate their children.
Adriana Zavala Torres, a member of the collective, explained that the searchers’ presence in Veracruz is due to leads obtained during the investigations, although she declined to provide further details so as not to jeopardize the ongoing cases.
“We are here because of a line of investigation. I can’t say more because we know that information is already documented in the case file, and we don’t want to hinder the investigations, but it has led us here,” she stated.
The mother is searching for her son, Cristian Alexander Zavala Torres, who disappeared on September 30, 2022, in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, at the age of 23. She recounted that the young man was a student and was abducted by armed men as he walked home from school.
Zavala Torres stated that in several of the cases the collective is supporting, there were no prior family conflicts or background information that would explain the young people’s voluntary disappearance. Therefore, she believes that one of the lines of investigation that should be explored is the possible recruitment of individuals by criminal groups.
“In the case of many of the mothers here today, our children were young. We can only think that this could be a case of recruiting young people, because disappearances continue to rise,” she said.
Currently, the Memory and Justice collective is made up of 156 families with missing members in Quintana Roo. On this occasion, five mothers traveled to Veracruz to conduct searches using their own resources and to publicize the faces of their missing relatives.
The searchers indicated that they will continue traveling to different states across the country as the investigations progress and new leads emerge regarding the possible whereabouts of their children.
Source: lasillaorta
