Movement for Peace and Justice with Dignity

Families of the “Disappeared” Search for Clandestine Graves in Mexico

By Daniela Pastrana
Juan de Dios is eight years old and is looking for his younger sister, Zoe Zuleica Torres Gómez, who went missing in December 2015, when she was only five years old, in the northeastern state of San Luis Potosí. He is the youngest searcher for clandestine graves in Mexico.

Families of ‘Desaparecidos’ Take Search into Their Own Hands

By Emilio Godoy
Carlos Trujillo refuses to give up, after years of tirelessly searching hospitals, morgues, prisons, cemeteries and clandestine graves in Mexico, looking for his four missing brothers.

Mexico’s Institutions Overwhelmed by Scale of Forced Disappearances

By Daniela Pastrana
Mexican police officer Luis Ángel León Rodríguez disappeared along with six other officers and a civilian on Nov. 16, 2009, in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Six days later, his mother, Araceli Rodríguez, began her ceaseless search.

A Memorial of White Scarves Protests Calderón’s Legacy

By Daniela Pastrana
Each scarf represents a life cut short. Each stitch, a tear. Each thread, a cry of frustration about death and impunity.


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