Madres buscadoras

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Madres buscadoras, also called madres rastreadoras ("searching mothers" in English), are Mexican women activists who search for their missing loved ones (primarily, but not solely, children) or their remains, and justice for the ongoing missing persons crisis in Mexico. Some madres buscadoras work individually, while others work as part of larger coalitions. The MNDM, or Movimiento por Nuestros Desaparecidos en México, is a coalition of 80 such groups, founded in 2015. The earliest known madre buscadora may be Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, whose son Jesús Piedra Ibarra was forcibly disappeared in 1974; in 1977, she established the Comité Eureka de Desaparecidos to demand justice for those forcibly disappeared and tortured during the Mexican Dirty War. The mothers have faced hostility from the state and from other groups. Some mothers have themselves gone missing or been murdered, such as Sandra Luz Hernández in 2014. According to the Mexican Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, at least...

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