translated from Spanish: 46000 disappeared in Mexico, relatives have lost hope of finding them alive

Morelia, Michoacán.-José Oscar Mayorga Baltazar left for a work meeting on September 21, 2018, in Hermosillo, Sonora. From that day on, his family doesn’t know where he is, because he disappeared without a trace. His wife-who lives in Michoacán with her children-has been dedicated to looking for him ever since. She has lost all hope that she is still alive.
María Teresa Fuentes Hernández is part of the collective “family Walking for Justice”, a group that is dedicated to looking for missing persons in the omission of the authorities.
This day the Michoacan members of the collective and who formed part of the V caravan “looking to find”, they reported that, to the more than 300 cases reported missing persons in Michoacan, are added another 40 cases, making the list ever larger, and Positioning the entity in the fifth state with the most missing, to say of Mercedes Ruíz González, spokesperson of the Association.
The disappearance of Jose Oscar Mayorga is only one of the 46000 men and women disappeared throughout the country, according to data from the National Search commissioner, Roberto Cabrera Alfaro, discharged in the month of January.
According to Plataforma Mexico data, to date it has the fingerprint registration of 36708 people who died unidentified in the country.
The life of Maria Teresa Fuentes and that of her family changed completely; She hopes at least to be able to recover her husband’s remains, for in pain she accepts that her husband is dead.
-Why do you think he’s dead?
-Because we must think of everything, as far as possible and impossible. We put ourselves to search in life and see that we do not find, then we think that where it is a pit, because it is most common to find a body in a pit.
-Have you lost hope that you are alive?
-The truth Yes. We would have had communication, we would have talked to him, but what does one think? Which is then in a pit, in which, we do not know and it is something that hurts enough.
It was announced that in addition to the 40 new allegations of enforced disappearance, 17 possible positive cases were recorded, of which one could be confirmed; A 31-year-old man located in a mass grave in the pantheon of Chichimequillas’s tenure and whose body was handed over to his relatives; And in Aquila a clandestine pit was located containing 43 skeletal remains between phalanges, metatarsal and condyles.
María Teresa Fuentes Hernández, like hundreds of people, continue to look for their families, hoping that someday they can recover them alive or dead, in the face of the omission of the authorities that limit their capacity to act.
“It is wasteful and pitiful that the authorities far from supporting the families that we are looking for our relatives close the doors, never have a concrete answer.”
She unlike other people did not receive threats when her husband disappeared, however if he suffered an attempt at extortion, he was called to deliver the amount of two million pesos in just 24 hours to recover Jose Oscar.
His life, like that of his children, overturned, as did more than 40000 people who took away their relatives.
“It is a very strong change of life, my son the younger wanted to devote himself to play football and now he wants to do nothing, the biggest is reserved and simply suffers in silence. You don’t want anyone to have to live such a situation. ”

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