A Mexican mother belonging to a group looking for missing relatives was killed together with her son in a western region full of criminal violence, authorities said Thursday.
Maria del Carmen Morales was shot on Wednesday night in the state of Jalisco, said the prosecutor’s office, added that the initial indications were that the crime was not related to its activism.
Morales, 43, belonged to the group of Warrior Searchers, whose Discovery of bones, shoes and clothing In a Jalisco drug cartel training field in Marched Mexico. The poster is directed by Nemesio Rubén “El Meco” Oseguera CervantesFor whom the United States government has sacrificed a $ 15 million reward for information that leads to their capture.
The spooky finding of highlighting for forced recruitment and other tactics used by criminal gangs in a country where more than 120,000 people are missing.
Morales was killed when he defended himself from his son Daniel Ramírez, 26 when he was attacked by two on a motorcycle, said the prosecutor’s office.
Another of his children had disappeared last year.
The prosecutor said that until now there was no evidence to link Morales’s murder to look for missing persons.
In a statement published on social networks, Warriors seekers requested an “unhealthy and exhaustive research.”
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Civil society groups formed by relatives that this inaction of the government risks their own lives that seek remain in unmarked tombs, or in areas where the poster gunmen are active.
In addition to the discovery in the ranch, other massive tombs have been found in recent months in Mexico. In January, at least 56 bodies were discovered In unmarked massive tombs in northern Mexico, not far from the border with the United States.
TO Common pit Discovered in December in a suburb or Guadalajara with boxes of bags or parts of the body dismembered contained the remains of 24 people, authorities said. That same month, the Mexican authorities said they recovered a total of 31 bodies Fox in Chiapas, a state full of poster violence.
Groups looking for missing people Let’s say that the posters and other gangs of organized crime sometimes use ovens to incinerate their victims and leave no trace.