Relatives and mothers seekers gathered again in the former Glorieta de la Palma to re-appropriate that space and name it the anti-monument Glorieta de las y los Desaparecidos.
“What we want with the taking of this Glorieta is to say: we are here and we want a place for memory, a place where we can demand,” said Yoltzi Martínez, of the Raúl Trujillo Herrera collective, who is looking for her sister Yatzil, who disappeared in Acapulco, Guerrero in 2010.
“What we want with the taking of this Glorieta is to say ‘we are here and we want a place for memory, a place where we can demand,'” says Yoltzi Martínez, who is looking for her sister Yatzil, who disappeared in Acapulco in 2010.
📹 : @ShareniiGuzman. pic.twitter.com/FG4Z2ttErF
— Animal Político (@Pajaropolitico) May 15, 2022
On Sunday, May 8, groups of mothers looking for their children took the Glorieta to rename it the Glorieta de las y los desaparecidos. The next day, the blankets, photos and flyers were removed by the Mexico City government.
During the March of May 10, chips were placed again. However, police in the capital placed fences and again, as an act of dignity, families re-appropriate the space.
Relatives of the disappeared believe it is vitally important to have a reminder of people who are no longer there.
“We are intervening the fences that the head of government put up, which we have classified as fences of impunity, but with our action we are transforming them into the fences of hope”: Jorge Verástegui, brother of Antonio and uncle of Antonio de Jesús, disappeared in 2009. pic.twitter.com/p9ef0fvweK
— Animal Político (@Pajaropolitico) May 15, 2022
“We need 43 and our children too,” concludes the act of memory, with which relatives and mothers seekers reappropriated the former Glorieta de la Palma.
“We need 43 and our children too,” concludes the act of memory, with which relatives and mothers seekers reappropriated the former Glorieta de la Palma.
📹 Video: @ShareniiGuzman. pic.twitter.com/lPRyjvSJyj
— Animal Político (@Pajaropolitico) May 15, 2022
Faced with the placement of fences, collectives have described this as a complete folly and an affront against the disappeared people and their families.
“Clearly, it shows a total insensitivity, on the one hand, to the serious humanitarian emergency that we are experiencing in Mexico in terms of disappearance and forensic crisis, but also a total lack of understanding of what, for families of disappeared persons, in Mexico and in Mexico City in particular, represents the construction of a symbol of memory,” says Mitzi Elizabeth Robles Rodríguez, member of Hasta Encontrarles.
What we do at Animal Político requires professional journalists, teamwork, dialogue with readers and something very important: independence. You can help us keep going. Be part of the team.
Subscribe to Animal Político, receive benefits and support free journalism.#YoSoyAnimal
