(10 May 2019) Relatives of thousands of people who've disappeared during the course of Mexico's drug war marched through Mexico City on Friday to demand more information about what happened to their loved ones.
It's estimated 40,000 people have gone missing since the start of the country's drug war in 2006.
The march took place on what Mexicans celebrate as Mother's Day.
The event was a way for women to support each other and remind their children they are not forgotten.
"Children, listen, your mother is still fighting," they chanted as they marched through the streets.
Sanjuana Rodríguez has been searching for her 27-year-old son Jaime Eduardo Vega who went missing in Nuevo Laredo, in the Northern state of Tamaulipas on July 24, 2017.
She's hoping the new administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will provide more resources to resolve her son's case.
Very few of the "disappeared" have ever been found, though clandestine mass graves dot the countryside.
Often, human remains are not identified, leaving some families with no word of their loved ones even after more than a decade.
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