In Mexico, Not Dead. Not Alive. Just Gone.
"I’ve been waiting so many years for this." He had spent the last six years searching for his daughter Karla, charging through every obstacle with an obsession
that bordered on lunacy — cartel threats, government indifference, declining health, even his other children, who feared that his reckless hunt had put them in danger.
" said Ms. Delgadillo, whose contact with her two other children tapered off in recent years.
that It just leaves you with so little time to raise and be a parent to the rest of your kids,
" he said to Ms. Delgadillo. that I wonder if this clothing might be as close as we ever get to our children,
Officially, the Mexican government acknowledges the disappearances of more than 30,000 people — men, women
and children trapped in a liminal abyss — neither dead nor alive, silent victims of the drug war.
Mario Valencia said that One woman came into my office crying, asking me to give her a body, any body, so she could bury it as her son,
" "I’m looking for buried clothing," he said, "and ashes." A woman from the federal prosecutor’s office intervened.
that I know you want to find body parts, but I have information that our kids were probably dissolved in acid or burned.
