'Even if it's a little bone': mothers and fathers break the barrier of oblivion with SEGOB

"Even if it's a little bone, a little bone to have with me," pleaded through tears Gustavo Hernández, father of Abraham Zeidy, who disappeared a year ago in Nuevo León, in front of Rosa Icela Rodríguez.

The Secretary of the Interior led the third dialogue table with search collectives at the Expo Reforma in CDMX, this time open to media at the demand of the mothers themselves, tired of meetings without agreements and without witnesses.

Outcry at open microphone

Rosa Icela greeted the more than 170 people present. Each mother and father shared their case. But the most harrowing moment was led by Gustavo Hernández, asking, with a broken voice, even for his son's remains.

The room was filled with tears and rage. "I have seven broken vertebrae, I take 12 pills a day for post-traumatic stress... I'm the one being punished,"claimed a searching mother from CDMX.

Demand for the resignation of the CNB head

Amid the pain, shouts erupted: "Out! Out!" The mothers demanded the resignation of Teresa Reyes Sahagún, head of the National Search Commission.

"She doesn't represent the victims. You dismantled what we had achieved with hard work," claimed Yoltzi Martínez from the Raúl Trujillocollective.

Patricia Manzanares, mother from Nuevo León, denounced that Reyes Sahagún destroyed the National Human Identification Center. "She knows nothing about the subject, she's rude, arrogant. She's useless," she stated.

Protection that doesn't protect

Rosa Icela left during the session. She said she had to attend Congress and then visit her hospitalized grandson.

Blanca Estela Ramírez, from the Missing Persons Network in Colima, confronted her: "Don't leave. Listen to us. Stop evading us."

Later, Blanca proved to the media that the panic button of the Protection Mechanism doesn't work. It took 37 seconds to sound. "If this happens far away, I'm screwed," she said angrily.

Another mother, from Tamaulipas, reported that she was followed on the road to the meeting. "The mechanism is worthless. Here they respond, out there they kill us."

A fourth table, because three aren't enough

Under pressure, the government will open a fourth table this April 11. The victims demand the minimum: truth, justice, and real security.

But while there are no answers or remains, the outcry continues. "Even if it's a little bone," echoes the desperation.