“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
Ceci Flores, leader of the Searching Mothers Collective of Sonora, said Wednesday that she will not stop fighting to find her children, even if she is criticized and revictimized by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Through a video on her social networks, Ceci Flores warned that she has received threats for her work as an activist and asked to be allowed to continue her search for two of her three children, who disappeared seven years ago in Sinaloa and Sonora.
“A mother who fights tirelessly for them begs them not to threaten me, I need to continue searching for my children. If anyone knows where they are, please hand them over to me. They could demand that I stop looking, but as long as my children are missing, even if I am constantly threatened, criticized and revictimized even by the president himself, I will continue to fight for my missing children,” said Ceci Flores.
Likewise, in the description of her video she also asked López Obrador not to make less of her struggle.
“My hands hurt after a search, they burn; every pile of dirt could tell me the secret of my children. But it hurts more to be threatened. Do not make less my struggle López Obrador, today we are only looking for the baby we carried and they snatched from us. Put yourself in my dirty shoes” reads the publication.
On August 1, Ceci Flores accused the Mexican president of being apathetic and insensitive, after he refused to have a meeting with them, as he described the actions of the collective as “politicking”.
“Maybe we would have to be the mother of ‘El Chapo’, or we would have to be Argentines so that he could attend to us, we are terribly sorry to have a president like him, insensitive to our struggle, a person who broke his word because in his postulation he promised the searching mothers to attend to them”, said the activist in an interview with Brenda Peña for Latinus Diario.
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