EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – It was almost seven years ago that two of Cecilia Flores’ sons were abducted in the coastal town of Bahia Kino, Mexico.
She began a frantic search that neighbors and anti-violence activists helped go viral. An anonymous tip led to the location of her 15-year-old son Jesus Adrian a day later – scared but unharmed. Her other son, Marco Antonio, 32, was nowhere to be found.
Mexican activist pleads with drug lords to let her search for sons
Flores’ search for Marco Antonio continued. She was eventually joined by other women whose sons and daughters were presumably taken by criminals in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora. They became known as the Madres Buscadoras (Mothers who search).
The group has conducted numerous searches in the Sonoran Desert, on the side of roads and in abandoned homes previously used by drug traffickers. News organizations and nonprofit groups in Mexico and Arizona credit them with locating dozens of clandestine graves and more than 1,000 sets of human remains…