translated from Spanish: Mothers found mass grave with 500 bodies in Tamaulipas

in 2014, the Lady María Isela Valdez and his son Roberto Quiroga-Flores Valdez, 28 years, were associated in a business: a small restaurant where the young woman acted as chef, and his mother as Assistant in the kitchen a. “my child has a Bachelor’s degree in gastronomy – tells María Isela-, and our business was one block away from the offices of the Ministerial police and the courts (in Reynosa, Tamaulipas), so we sell them to judges, Secretaries and police.”
It was not a business that were becoming rich, remember, but it allowed them to live with dignity, a short time.
“Soon after became organized crime, the Gulf Cartel – continues-, and began to ask ‘fee’ to all businesses that were in Reynosa, including our restaurant: we had to pay 30 pesos a month, or thousand pesos per day, by the concept of ‘security'” .
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“At the beginning we pay, so we were not to harm – assures María Isela-, but when people are afraid, they paralyze: you can no longer work, and you can’t sleep, already not resting… already not going to your work with the joy that you used to do it” “, so we decided to close up shop, because I didn’t want them continue taking away my work product, and my son was very worn, very scared”.
With the decision to close his restaurant, they lost not only their source of employment, but also their heritage but, even so, María Isela, says she and her son thought that with that sacrifice they would break the chain of extortion to which the Gulf Cartel kept them under. It was not.
Weeks later, “I was out with my son – tells María Isela-, it was on March 10, 2014, and my daughter-in-law calls us, to tell us that he needed diapers and milk, because they just have a baby, her second son…” “We first went for diapers and milk, and then for the House, and when we arrived, and there were several cars: a Red Corvette, with Mexican plates, a black Tahoe truck, and several more, all trucks with armed and hooded people”.
This group of armed persons forced mother and son to deal with vehicles that are transported, and brought them with them.
“Then we separated my son and me – remember María Isela-. I was captive for 28 days, during which hit me. I lost several teeth. And then they gave me freedom… offenders told me I had to get 5 million pesos”.
María Isela was abandoned on a highway in Tamaulipas, barefoot. His captors ordered him to remove the blindfold only until I heard that they had long passed.
“When they went I started to walk down the road – Chronicles-, until I saw a man who was driving a trailer, I lied to him, I told him that I had assaulted to steal my car, and that I needed to get to the city of Mexico (where he had relatives)… was hit hard” teeth were missing me and it could hardly walk, one leg not helped me, hurt me enough”.
Thanks to the solidarity of that driver trailer, and his other companions that have agreed to give their support, María Isela managed to get the next day to the city of Mexico, where family members were unable to attend it.
“First took me to the doctor, and then to the Attorney General of the Republic, where I filed the complaint for the kidnapping of my son and mine, but they did not do anything…”.
On May 13, 2014, two months after the kidnapping, and three weeks after having been released, María Isela received a call, in which the captors claimed that it had not returned with 5 million pesos which demanded for the life of your child , and warned him that, in retaliation, Roberto had been handed over to a criminal identified as “Loquillo” or “21 Metro”.
The captors contacted the family twice more, first to send them a photo of Roberto, submitted and quilling by offenders identified as “Metro 21”, and then a note that warned them that Robert had been killed and his remains thrown into a area known as the Calcheras.
“The next month – regrets María Isela – March 10, 2019, will meet five years that my son disappeared, and to date still waiting for authorities to begin to look for it.” But actually I am not expecting the authorities: I immediately started my own research, I made 37 crawls in that area, each time with more participants, because they were approaching me other moms who were also looking for their sons and daughters, and since then We have found many human remains in these searches. That was what led us to discover the graves of Miguel Alemán, with approximately 500 corpses”.
The funeral home in 2017, a group of mothers seeking of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, approached a woman, employed in an establishment of the neighbouring municipality of Miguel Alemán.
On the way to work, this woman spent every day against a funeral home of the municipality, in which always saw corpses thrown at your front door, without that anyone from the town already seems surprising you.
With this information, the Group of mothers came to the funeral home and spoke with its owner (establishment and owner names are kept, for safety), which recognized that, between 2014 and 2016, organized crime had thrown, practically every day, at least one corpse to the doors of your business.
“The Lord told us that he called daily to the Public Ministry of Reynosa, which is the closest, to warn them that again had gone to throwing a body, but that the authorities never came, nor a one-time – tells María Isela-. Then, as the authorities did not want to be held accountable, this man did his best that came up: dig a grave in the mount, and there began to deposit the bodies that throw him out of his business, wrap them in plastic and sent them to the underground pit… This trench was filled and dug another, and then another one. In total, there were three pits in which he deposited around 500 bodies, according to their own count”.
With the testimony and the precise information provided by the owner of the funeral home, the collective seeking breast located the three mass graves on the outskirts of Miguel Alemán, in a semi-desert area, and gave notice to the State, headed by Francisco Pan Government Garcia Cabeza de Vaca, as well as to the national’s human rights Commission.
Between April 2018, explains María Isela, the State Prosecutor for enforced disappearances, Elizabeth Almanza, headed the work of exhumation of these bodies, which helped experts from Guatemala and Germany, and tasks that were performed in the presence of mothers who found such graves.
“- Tells – bodies were wrapped in blankets, tied with their belts, bandaged face, handcuffed, tied toes… There were bodies of children, women, elders, young people”.
Fossa, were also extracted some belongings accompanying, or which had fallen bodies, among which “had identifications, and so we know that some of these people were Central American, and others from the United States, by its ‘” ID'”, situation which came to take cognizance of the facts both staff of the United States Consulate in Matamoros (Tamaulipas), as of the Office of the High Commissioner for the human rights of the United Nations Organization.”
However, draws María Isela, in June 2018, i.e. three months after having started work, “Attorney general of the State, Irving neighborhoods, and the Prosecutor for disappearances, Elizabeth Almanza, decided to suspend the exhumations: closed the three mass graves,” When there were still many bodies inside, and only extracted 265 bodies”.
Eight months have passed since then, “and the families that we are looking for our sons and daughters have not been informed of any results by the authorities, the State, or the Federal. They have not told us who are those 265 people took, and took that DNA samples, nor said why they have not recovered the rest of the bodies that abandoned graves. They are hiding all those bodies”, highlights the mother of Roberto.
The Palace in November 2018, María Isela Valdez coincided in the international airport of the city of Mexico with Andrés López Manuel Obrador, who would assume the post of President of the Republic the following month.
“He was going for Colima, and I to Ciudad Victoria (Tamaulipas) – remember María Isela-, and while we waited for our flight departure, he began talking to me, and I told him of our problems… that day was Monday, and told me that the following Wednesday we saw in” “Ciudad Victoria, because he would be there in a ceremony with the Governor”.
From that commitment, Lopez Obrador aides contacted María Isela, and cited it in the Palace of Government of Tamaulipas (which would be the political act), “they told me that it was going to be a contributor to his waiting for us there to get closer with the President that those were the instructions, so we were there early, and we had met many families who wanted to expose our cases as well as the issue of the mass graves of Miguel Alemán”.
However, complained, “when we arrived at the Government Palace, the staff of the Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca deceived us, we were told that we had to go to an office, where we were going to be received. We agreed, we went to those offices, and then we locked there, and did not let us go until it ended the political act”.
The intention of the Group of mothers was to give Lopez Obrador a work project for the search of disappeared in Tamaulipas, which, finally, María Isela could give you at the end of October, at the close of the dialogues on public safety called “listening forums”.
There, Lopez Obrador said “we’re going to keep seeing”, but to date, lamented, “we do not want to receive, has been a battle, Alejandro Encinas (head of the Commission on the truth for the cases of disappeared persons) did not want to talk to us”.
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“All this is very sad – concludes María – Isela, in Tamaulipas are the massacres, the massacres, disappearances, we need that all organisms of the world human rights turn over to see what is happening in Mexico: a silent war”.
“Tamaulipas Attorney unveiled their advance to the accusations about the missing information, the Attorney General of Justice of the State of Tamaulipas, through the Special Prosecutor in the investigation of the crimes of forced disappearance, reported that” He has been working in an organized and transparent in the project of forensic pantheon of the municipality of Miguel German, to the North of the State of Tamaulipas”.
Through a press release, the Office of Tamaulipas clarifies that they are mass graves, most not clandestine, as they called them the families of missing persons.
The Unit ensures that at all times, groups and relatives of victims have been informed of the progress and findings. “Those who have been excluded from this communication process has been voluntarily while efforts have been made to integrate all stakeholders ‘.
The Attorney added that the work in the forensics Pantheon have been developed by staff of the Prosecutor’s Office with the support of international experts.
About the research details that from April 16 to June 30, 2018, was held the first process of exhumation and reburial of the bodies of unidentified persons placed in the mass grave in the municipal Pantheon “United by del Recuerdo”, analysis of the Miguel German municipality.
After this, they explain, various briefings – have been carried out even before the process – give home to explain to the groups and families of missing persons form that the exhumation would take place until training to Learn how forensic science are applied in a search process.
According to the Attorney General, the relatives of missing persons had access daily to the zero of the Pantheon area, where exhumations were carried out so that they identified the work that forensic experts were carrying out.
“At all times he had with the presence of members of the CNDH and the Commission on human rights of the State of Tamaulipas”, they added.
The last meeting between the relatives and the authorities was last January 18, where the Attorney General of Justice of the State of Tamaulipas, through the Special Prosecutor in the investigation of the crimes of forced disappearance, yielded a breakthrough the work of identification of bodies exhumed during the months of April to June 2018.
The information submitted as a result of these developments is as follows: the family of 5 of them, who have already donated their samples have been located.
A case which, in the coming days, will be delivered to their families in accordance with the corresponding protocol has been confirmed and the other four just waiting that will confirm your genetic correspondence.
so far total 265 full bodies, analyzed and re-inhumados in the forensics pantheon. 
48 remains or evidence not associated.
The total number of exhumed evidence is 313.
265 extracted full bodies authorities reported 254 belong are male; female 5 and 6 have not been determined.
766 genetic samples of bone fragments and teeth of the analyzed bodies at the site, were also collected as well as 307 samples reference to relatives who came to denounce or only to donate his blood sample.
“The unassociated remains are packed into 82 boxes, of which we have analyzed anthropologically 47 cases and of these sampled 276 bone, representing an approximate gain of the 57.31%, in the areas of analysis, registration, inventory and sampling for” Forensic genetics”, stand out.
Once you have concluded the anthropological analysis and with the results of DNA authorities hope to establish the minimum number of individuals who will be added to the 265 full bodies.
While the laboratory of genetics, with respect to the development of genetic markers of the 1,042 samples of bone, bone fragments and teeth, reports the following progress: 1-766 dental samples and bone already the totality of DNA was extracted.
2. of the same samples has been produced 80 of 265 bodies genetic profile.
3 of 276 samples of bone remains unassociated, has plumbed the DNA of 50 of them, without that it has developed the genetic profile of none so far.
4 of crosschecking of information before Mortem – Post Mortem are 20 hypotheses of identification.
In his statement, the Attorney General of Justice of the State of Tamaulipas, through special prosecutor in the investigation of the crimes of forced disappearance, stresses that “it has been working continuously” and informed “clearly and” transparent to all relatives”on the progress of the investigation. 

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