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- Photos of Veronica Rosas and her son Diego decorate Veronica's shirt and necklaces, as she poses for a portrait at her home in Ecatepec, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. Rosas' son went missing when he was 16 years old on Sept. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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Takeaways from the AP's report on Mexican mothers searching for their disappeared children
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press
Fri,08/30/24-8:12AM , 602 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — According to official figures, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952, though the real number is believed to be higher.

During the country’s “dirty war,” a conflict that lasted throughout the 1970s, disappearances were attributed to government repression.
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- Catholic nun Paola Clericó, holding a poster of missing person Fernando Ivan Ornelas, and Veronica Rosas with a photo of her missing son Diego, ask a resident if he recognizes either man and invite him to join a Mass with members of their search collective "Uniendo Esperanzas" or Uniting Hope, in Mexico City, Sunday, July 21, 2024. The collective of people with missing family members held a Mass on the birthday of Ornelas who disappeared five years prior. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press
Fri,08/30/24-8:04AM , 711 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray.

“I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son, Diego Maximiliano.
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- Claudia Santos performs a ceremony with residents and members of an Amaxac Indigenous organization to commemorate the 503rd anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire's capital, Tenochtitlan, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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An offering, a fire, a prayer. How a Mexico City community celebrates its pre-Hispanic origins
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press
Wed,08/14/24-11:36AM , 534 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Santos’ spiritual journey has left a mark on her skin.

Soon after the 50-year-old embraced her pre-Hispanic heritage and pledged to speak for her ancestors’ worldview in Mexico City, she tattooed the symbol “Ollin” — which translates from the Nahuatl language as “movement” — on her wrist.
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- A relic of St. Jude Thaddeus is transported in a glass urn on a trajinera through the canals of Xochimilco, Mexico City, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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Catholic devotees honor St Jude's relic with watery procession through Mexico's Xochimilco canals
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press
Sun,08/11/24-6:05PM , 621 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was no ordinary Sunday on Mexico City’s famed Xochimilco canals.

Instead of tourists and locals hanging out with friends, the brightly painted boats known as “trajineras” were filled with Catholics honoring a relic of St. Jude Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles and patron saint of impossible causes.
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