translated from Spanish: Family looking for their missing in Chihuahua

Hilda Avila Lopez stands against thousand leaves printed bearing the face of his brother and other nine men torn out of their routines and their lives; “we are believers, most”, says.
And it makes sense–all the sense of the world–that someone who seeks, creates. Believe in something or someone that will help you find your family member. Believe is the fundamental part of a search.
The room is small. Hilda and Yessica – from the center of rights human passage of North – written sheet after sheet, thousand times, a phone number and cover another. It might seem an idle task but in fact implies, for them, a very important and successful decision. They want to get information that will help them to give the whereabouts of their missing persons directly, without the intervention of the Prosecutor’s Office.
And it is that cases of disappearance which remain in this central have contradictory characteristics. In each of the ten cases are strong evidence of the participation or the responsibility of State security bodies. Then, while their beliefs, their wait or hope, all have learned to distrust of the authorities.
A few days after finding Hilda branding and writing numbers in thousand leaves, the afternoon of July 21, the members of the group families United for truth and justice, made up of 10 cases of enforced disappearance which accompanies the Paso del Norte Center – a organization that provides legal and psychological support to families and victims of enforced disappearance and torture, in city Juarez, interned in the Juarez Valley to go, town by town, from El Porvenir to El Sauzal, gluing faces and asking for information.
“Having an own (phone) number gives us hope, because with the public prosecutor, if they talk to them, they will not we say nothing”, said Patricia García, mother of Jacobo Orozco García, disappeared at age 22.
The family decided to paste the research in that area because three of the cases that accompanies the Centre for human rights are of men who disappeared in those villages. In addition, the Valle de Juárez is considered to be a possible ‘clandestine grave’.
On 28 July 2015 in the courtroom 2 of the city of Ciudad Juarez, there were women – mothers without daughters because they seized them – who wept on hearing the sentence issued by the judges against five men: 697 years of jail each. Something there was justice, some of the qualms about the terrible damage of losing a loved one. The five men abducted them, raped, whoredoms, tortured and murdered.
One of the tests for the ruling were the bones of 11 women found in the sierra West of Ciudad Juarez, in the Valle de Juárez, in the area known as brook the Navajo. However, the relatives of the victims have the certainty that there are many more bodies and not just women. Each tracking that has been done in the area have found something that indicates that there are more.
Thus said it José Luis Castillo, father of Esmeralda Castillo – disappeared in Ciudad Juarez of May 19, 2009 – a tomorrow before departing for tracking citizen. “We would like, one day, go to the Creek the Navajo and not find rest”.
These scans are organized by family members and the community in general. Students, activists, supportive people who want to find answers to the disappearances are. Fathers and mothers, sons of painfully absent people. They will not find someone in particular.
For example, Nansy Cisneros traveled from Los Angeles, United States, to support those searches. His brother, Javier Cisneros, disappeared in Jalisco but she says that whenever someone finds (dead or alive and closing a cycle) she feels peaceful.
Citizens, who must be accompanied by at least two units of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Chihuahua, those scans are that Governor Javier Corral is referred to as ‘personal searches for José Luis Castillo’, the man he delivered a bone of his daughter , a tibia of 206 bones that is the human body, to tell him, “Mr already look no further, your daughter is dead: was feminicide”.
So they closed the disappearance of Esmeralda Castillo folder. With a toe bone found, precisely, in the Creek the Navajo.
But what does a man with a bone of the foot of his youngest daughter. José Luis didn’t want to bury this single bone. It asked that they explain you, if the folder would happen to femicides, how his daughter had died. Asked if a person without a tibia is obligatorily dead. They could not answer him. It demanded to stop him making a DNA test out of the country, and still not let him.
The only thing sure was that once the folder by disappearance happened to femicides, would look for Esmeralda. Then José Luis and his family decided not to accept that only bone to determine that her daughter was dead.
While they were told that it had to be them, that they would receive aid – 150 thousand dollars in a principle-which accept the death, although he did not know how, or why, or who, it would bring them rewards.
Since the disappearance of her daughter, José Luis runs along the streets and gets into the truck with a pink blanket that has stamped the face of Emerald; give heart-shaped palettes and tells everyone that if one day see his daughter, please, call it. That you do not forget the face of Emerald. That you do not forget.
Jose Luis has traveled the desert itching with a stick. She go from city to city demanding attention of the authorities. It recently jumped the pallets in the despair of being a ghost for the Governor during the pacification in Juarez forums, organized by the next federal Government. On that occasion demanded the signing Javier Corral in a role to negotiate a meeting, knowing that it will be probably ignored, again.
They have called for José Luis Castillo to his home to threaten him, to tell him to stop search or that they will disappear to her other daughter. When he asked a PGR research to track calls, determined that they originated from the offices of the Government of the State of Chihuahua, according to Luis José. That happened, he has, at the beginning of this State administration and have not been investigated more, ensures.
The same goes for the other members of the collective Chihuahua regions of pigeons and large houses looking for their missing relatives; all ask through the streets with the photo of your family, if anyone knows something: whatever.
On 10 may, members of the collective were enthusiastic about the idea that screened the inquiries of relatives on a giant screen in a public square of Ciudad Juarez. That was the gift of the Mayor, Armando Cabada Alvídrez mother’s day. Spend hours inquiries in a public square which was empty at noon. Only the family endured the Sun. Not all: a woman fainted.
Again and again, the relatives of the victims of disappearance have protested and demanded results, outside the Prosecutor’s Office without leaving anyone to care for them.
During these events, they cry, they laugh, they get angry, they embrace. They are as absent and then pray… our father who art in heaven… holding hands. Do not lose hope that one day you will find their loved ones.
The day that José Luis demanded a meeting to Javier Corral in the Forum of pacification, which jumped to approach was, but they were dozens of victims who shouted from below they wanted answers. However, the response of the Governor, in the video that came up the next day, was only for Norma Andrade and José Luis Castillo.
There are three civil society organizations that represent and accompanied by legal and even psychological way to the relatives of victims and victims of torture, human trafficking, forced disappearance and murder of women in Ciudad Juarez. They are the network table of women of Juarez, the Centre for Integral Development of the female Association Civil (CEDIMAC) and the Paso del Norte human rights Center.
The three groups sought separately said that they have just had a meeting with the Governor of the State and more than one year ago does not attend them.
Imelda Marrufo, Director of the network table of Ciudad Juarez, said in this regard that “when the Governor says ‘is that we are supporting them’, I think that tells us is that it has failed to understand that historically in Ciudad Juarez victims have always asked and” demanded a dialogue and direct relationship with the Governor, and that is their right.
Marrufo Nava says to rest attention in other bodies and institutions without assuming a direct dialogue, was a mistake by the Governor. It is not it clear that this request of victims is historical, and unknown that the relationship has always been so. The fact that assembled on one occasion with some of the groups, is not enough.
The Government of the State of Chihuahua then issued a bulletin in which reported that Governor Corral had a private meeting with José Luis Castillo and Norma Andrade on August 22 to follow up on their cases.
Outside of the Prosecutor’s Office, Norma Laguna celebrated the 28 birthday of his daughter Idaly Juache Laguna, disappeared eight years ago. It was July 30. There said: “I want to speak out and demand both Governor Corral the Peniche Prosecutor will meet with us again”.
It was night and they took candles. Members of journalism three groupings were present. Together sought in the midst of a huge night that covers everything with its overwhelming darkness. The struggle of the victims to have a response from the Government is returned, repeat after repeat with the change of administrations.
Nine men have been killed and women’s dresses in this month. The show almost performative riding a scene with a corpse, a woman is the maximum reason for public humiliation. So disappear in Ciudad Juarez, opposite the historic impunity.

Original source in Spanish