First Posted: May 11, 2021 06:18 AM EDT
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Mexico City once again witnessed hundreds of demonstrators gather for the annual Mother s Day march. This year, they demand the authorities to look for their missing children.
Individuals who participated in the march chanted slogans asking where their children were, emphasizing that their mothers are looking for them.
The said march is an annual event in Mexico City that happens every May 10, the day they celebrated Mother s Day. Based on the information gathered by the Mexican government, not less than 80,000 individuals have gone missing since the drug war in the country, which started in 2006.
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Mexican mothers march in capital for disappeared children
People carry photographs during a march in remembrance of those who have disappeared, on Mother s Day in Mexico City, Monday, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A person s his hand reads in Spanish Where are you Ivan? during a march in remembrance of those who have disappeared, on Mother s Day in Mexico City, Monday, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Mexican mothers march in capital for disappeared children
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 10, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT
MEXICO CITY Hundreds of people observed Mothers Day in Mexico’s capital Monday by marching to demand authorities find their missing children.
Participants chanted slogans like “Where are our children, where are they?” and “Child, listen, your mother is searching for you.”
The march occurs annually on May 10, which is Mothers Day in Mexico. The government says that over 80,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since the country’s drug war began in 2006.
Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez met with some of the mothers early Monday, and her office said she “repeated the government’s desire to find out the location of their relatives.”