Fifteen years after her daughter's disappearance, 55-year-old Silvia Ortiz ...
TORREON, Mexico - Fifteen years after her daughter’s disappearance, 55-year-old Silvia Ortiz spends day after day raking through arid scrubland in northern Mexico hoping to find her remains.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in the violence since then, and shedding light on the fate of the disappeared is one of the toughest challenges facing the administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Decked out in surgical masks and sun hats, Ortiz’s collective - Grupo Vida or “Life Group” - keeps up a near-constant digging operation around the city of Torreon in the state of Coahuila.
In Coahuila, 2,144 people reported missing have never been found, Herrera said. Many disappeared while the territory was ravaged by the Zetas, a notoriously brutal drug cartel. Two weeks ago, Grupo Vida opened a tortilleria, launched with a grant from the American Jewish World Service, a non-profit group. They hope money from the enterprise can cover the operating costs of their community-led forensic digs.
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