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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.”
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Mexico apologizes to indigenous Maya for centuries of abuse 04 May 2021 / 08:40 H. Handout picture released by the Mexican Presidency showing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (R), his Guatemalan counterpart Alejandro Giammattei (C) and his Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero (L) during the Appeal for Forgiveness for Grievances to the Mayan People ceremony, in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on May 3, 2021. -AFP PHOTO / MEXICO’S PRESIDENCY
MEXICO CITY: Mexico s government offered an official apology on Monday to the indigenous Maya people for the terrible abuses committed against them in the centuries since the Spanish conquest.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presented the apology as part of a series of events this year marking the 500th anniversary of the conquest and the bicentennial of Mexican independence.
Mexico’s government has offered an official apology to the Maya Indigenous people for the “terrible abuses” committed against them in the centuries since the Spanish conquest.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presented the apology as part of a series of events this year marking the 500th anniversary of the conquest and the bicentennial of Mexico’s 1821 independence from Spain.
“We offer the most sincere apologies to the Maya people for the terrible abuses committed by individuals and national and foreign authorities in the conquest, during three centuries of colonial domination and two centuries of an independent Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said.