And in Mexico City, hundreds marched in the streets for Mother’s Day on Thursday, demanding justice for tens of thousands of Mexicans who have gone missing since the nation declared its war on drug traffickers in 2006. Mothers of the Disappeared, an organization of mothers whose children are missing, asked the government to act to stop the crisis. This is Lucrecia Galicia Rodríguez, one of the marchers.
Lucrecia Galicia Rodríguez: “I am Lucrecia Galicia Rodríguez, and I am searching for my daughter, Jaqueline Galicia Galicia, who left home and never came back. She has four children and is 35 years old. … I wanted to come to this march so they would help me find my daughter. She has been disappeared for a year and a half, and her children are waiting for their mother to come back. That’s why I came to the protest. They invited me, and I came to the march.”