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Where are they?
Who took them?
Why?
Where are their remains?
A geography of pain
Gabriela Arlene Benitez Ybarra
disappeared in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. On June 13, 2011 and her body was found here three months and 10 days later.
We all give out an odor
children, always have a smell.
THE ABSENCE
the distressing thing is that it gradually disappears,
the disappearance of the smell is the absence
Barbara Ybarra Martinez – Gaby’s Mother
I am the mother of Gabriela Arlene Benitez Ybarra.
Gaby was a girl of sixteen, who disappeared one June 13.
I did not see her alive again.
It took three months and ten days for me to see her corpse.
The pain one feels for a child is indescribable.
THE PAIN
The anguish, the emptiness
The not knowing
My daughter Monica Alejandrina disappeared on Tuesday December 14, 2004.
Adela Alvarado Valdés - " Payasa salchicha".
Because if my daughter was dead and I saw her, I would know where she is.
But,
this anguish of not knowing anything, nothing about her is worse than on the first day.
On the first day I hoped that something would happen.
I ask for justice, justice is what I ask for!
JUSTICE
I ask for justice, I am nobody, I am not powerful!
I am not powerful, so there is no justice!
There is justice for the powerful!
Then they find them right way!
They find the murderers and right away they grab them!
But I am nothing!
I am nothing, so they give me no justice!
The first thing they do is to give them up for dead and pay us to shut up and that’s it!
I do not want money, I want my child!
They took her alive, and I want my child alive!
That is what I ask for!
Margarita Santizo Martinez - Esteban's mother.
It will be three years since I have known nothing of my son Esteban, he is a Federal policeman.
He was sent to Lázaro Cárdenas to work, and he disappeared there on December 3, 2009.
Since then, I have known nothing about my son.
I want to know where you are son.
Where you are if you're alive?
Where are you, son?
Who has you?
Why did they take you?
I'm looking for you, son.
If you are listening to me, I'm alive and I hope you're alive, wherever you are.
I want you to know that I'm struggling to find you.
Jorge Mario Moreno - disappeared on July 1, 2010, on the road from Guaymas to Obregón, in Sonora.
CONSOLATION
I'm Nepomuceno Moreno from Sonora State and here we come to find what I don’t find in my state.
Right? Justice, solidarity and consolation
He disappeared on the first day of July 2010 in the area between Obregón and Guaymas.
the authorities and criminals chased him and then shot him to death, but I cannot abandon my son.
We must continue the struggle, as it is better to die in the firing line.
Nepomuceno was threatened with death for denouncing the disappearance of his son Jorge Mario.
Don Nepo was killed here on November 28, 2011 in Hermosillo, Sonora.