It is the march for the four years of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in government, where thousands of supporters walk down Avenida Reforma towards the Zócalo. However, the legislators and leaders at the head of this and other contingents pose seriously and ignore the demand that they find in their path, that of the families that search and cannot find.
Then follows the Song without Fear, by Vivir Quintana. “We sing without fear, we ask for justice. We scream for every missing person. May it resonate loudly: We love each other alive! ”.
The horn rumbles, some sing but without flinching, they pass without seeing. From the left side you can hear “Sir, madam, don’t be indifferent. They kidnap our children in front of the people”, but they continue to go unheeded.
At that time, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and thousands of supporters had also passed by on their walk to the Zócalo.
Nobody stops to ask about the people who have not been located: according to official figures, around 104,000 in recent years.
Not a public servant approaches, everyone is focused on the march and the president.
A group of relatives of the disappeared waited in vain for the president to stop in his path to listen to their demands.
At that time the relatives were already unbalanced. There were no more than 20 relatives of the disappeared persons gathered in the Glorieta de las y los Desaparecidos.
Only one person, Cristina Hernández Vega, from Empalme, Sonora, managed to get within a meter and a half of the president.
At that distance, he unbuttoned his beige vest, exposing his demand. “When the president saw my shirt with my son’s photo, he asked the guards to take me out and they took me out. I couldn’t get close to him, I just yelled at him that I loved my son,” she narrated.
On her blouse is the photo of her son Jesús Alberto Rodríguez Hernández, who disappeared on January 25, 2019 in Sonora.
The other relatives could not even make their way through the people who prevented the Federal president from reaching, who offered a message minutes later to thousands who were waiting for him in the Zócalo.
